Feature feedback: partial search acceptance

[aditya siram]

Perfect! Now what do I do with my evening? :)
-deech


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Michael Markert
<markert.michael at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, May 04 2013 (00:12), Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:00 PM, aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm working on a patch to evil where searching for a word with '/'
> allows
> >> me to stop at a partial match.
> >>
> >> For example, given:
> >> "The wor^d I am looking for is abcd".
> >> where '^' represents point, if I type '/' 'abce', 'abc' is highlighted.
> >> When I hit RETURN or C-g I want point to go to the beginning of that
> >> partial match and not jump back to where my search started.
> >>
> >
> > It sounds like the wrong behavior to me, because "abce" doesn't match
> > "abc". I probably misunderstood you.
>
> No it does not match, but Isearch (and therefore the current default
> search of evil) stops here if "abce" does not occur in the buffer
> because it matched the previous input "abc".
>
> I liked the idea so I put it into my config:
>
> https://github.com/cofi/dotfiles/commit/13bca2e2503653fb0137a4216535d4505c3cb100
>
> (Popping the mark returns to start, as usual, so C-o or C-x C-SPC)
>
> BUT I don't think RET or even C-g are a good choice for keys. And then
> I'm unsure if it should be included into evil.
>
> Michael
>
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