[PATCH 0/7] emacs: JSON-based search cleanups

[Austin Clements]

Quoth Mark Walters on Jul 13 at  7:12 pm:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > This series builds on the JSON-based search series [0] to clean up
> > several other aspects of search-mode.  It removes constraints on the
> > formatting of tags in the result line (you can even leave them out
> > entirely), it recolors lines when tags change, it adds supports for
> > multi-line result formats, and rendering big search buffers should be
> > less quadratic (it might even be linear).  Much of this derives from
> > having a single object representation of a result (the JSON plist) and
> > a simple method for rendering it to the buffer.
> 
> Overall this series looks excellent. I have reviewed all the patches
> except patch 4/7 (I will need to work out how macros work to review
> that) and they seem fine modulo the small comments I have made.
> 
> One final comment: I couldn't persuade the defcustom search result to
> take a newline symbol to test multiline results. It seems to escape
> entries of \n, and I couldn't enter returns (and ^Q return didn't work
> either).

C-q C-j worked for me.  Not the most obvious, certainly.

> It was easy by editing the option in my .emacs file and then seemed to
> work as expected.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Mark
> >
> > [0] 1341870162-17782-1-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu