Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:07:20 +0200:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:07:13 +0200:
> > > Overall, I like all of your suggestions, but I don't see a need for
> > > us to implement them all for 1.8. In my mind, these are nice bite-size
> > > tasks for our issue tracker that new contributors could pick up.
> > > So I'd suggest filing a "bite-sized" issue for each of the above.
> > 
> > Disagree.  The big problem is compatibility: once you have
> > --search --isearch --search-and --isearch-and
> > you have committed to that particular UI.  Let's figure out a UI _now_
> > that can stand all the extensions discussed (case-insensitive,
> > logical and/or/not, regexes, etc).
> 
> Geez, the perfect is the enemy of the good.
> 
> As for regex support, well, I'm not gonna do the heavy lifting
> of integrating a regex engine into our code base for 1.8.

I'm not asking for this.  I'm just asking to make what we already have
extensible.

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