Ah great, sorry I misunderstood. That makes sense, thanks! On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:09 AM Nicholas Marriott < [email protected]> wrote:
> No that is not incremental search, that is search-again, it should use > regexps. Incremental search is search-forward-incremental where it updates > the search every time you change the search term not only when you press > Enter. Try C-r with mode-keys set to Emacs. > > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, 07:07 Anindya Mukherjee, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks! So say I start a / or Ctrl-S search with the regular expression >> "a..d", to pick a concrete example. If the text has multiple matches such >> as "axxd", "ayzd", they will all be highlighted. Then if the user presses >> n, incremental search runs with the first exact match, in this case "axxd". >> So in this case all "axxd" will be highlighted and "ayzd" will not. >> Basically incremental will run with the first match encountered using that >> as the search string (not regexp). Does that make sense? >> >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 1:01 PM Nicholas Marriott < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I think search-forward/backward should change to use regexps but >>> incremental should not. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 20 Nov 2019, 20:59 Anindya Mukherjee, <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Following up, is it desirable to add a new command to do regexp search >>>> and leave the old commands as they are? This would mean >>>> window_copy_regexp_search_... variants of some of the existing functions >>>> and associated UI hookup. >>>> >>>> I was able to fix the line wrapped search issue mentioned above, still >>>> doing character wise comparison, of course. Wondering if it deserves a >>>> separate commit to the existing search infrastructure? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:29 AM Anindya Mukherjee <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes my thoughts exactly :D >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:50 AM Nicholas Marriott < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> If you are adding regex search it would be a perfect opportunity to >>>>>> fix that also :-). >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 16:27, Anindya Mukherjee <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Thanks for clarifying! >>>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmux-users/CAN%2Bi5iMWtPfDgEAqQhcNVr5iJGanuA969eD6a8N3ODKR_72GrA%40mail.gmail.com.
