Re: Displaying the state of isearch toggles [was Re: ASCII-folded search]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 11:47:22 +0100
> From: Artur Malabarba <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>,
>       "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>,
>       Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, Kaushal <address@hidden>
> 
> Here's a suggestion on how verbose toggles could be done, following
> Kaushal's previous mention of multi-line echo areas.
> It shows the state of all toggles on a line above the prompt. This is
> given the usual `minibuffer-prompt' face and it stays fixed while the
> user is typing/searching, so it's not a distraction.

An alternative idea is not to show _any_ toggles, and provide a
separate key to display it if the user so wants.