On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:49:46 +0100, Allan Odgaard allan@macromates.com wrote:
I know this wasn't your argument -- I just wanted to clarify my own, which was in response to the 'i-search is faster'.
Just to add my perspective--I find a regular search somewhat annoying in the cases where:
- There's very many matches, and I keep guessing wrong as to how much substring I need to type to find the match I want. (Poor example: "text" finds "textedit"; re-entered search of "textmate" finds "textmate"; re-entered search of "textmate users" finds textmate users mailing list.)
- I've actually opened the wrong document, and have typed in a long search string (to disambiguate) only to discover that there's no matches at all. (Most annoying when I'm searching the wrong document, but happens with the "right" document too.)
- I've made typo in the search string, and I don't notice until the search has been run. (Or worse, I don't notice at all, and think that there's no match at all.)
Basically, I guess isearch has advantages over search for me in cases where, given a particular search string, that search string matches either no lines, or a lot of lines.
--M.