Re: [libvirt PATCH 4/4] docs: coding-style: One variable declaration per line

On 1/14/22 3:29 PM, Ján Tomko wrote: > On a Friday in 2022, Laine Stump wrote: >> Since it's Friday and we're talking about personal preferences - I >> personally dislike the use of i and j (and anything else with a single >> letter) as variable names, because it makes using a text search for >> occurences pointless. Sure, longer variable names could also be a >> substring of something else, and any variable could be re-used >> elsewhere, but even then a search is mildly usable. > > Well, you need to search for the word i instead of the letter i. > > grep has the '-w' switch for that, or you can specify some boundaries: > \bi\b > \<i\> > > vim searches for the word under the cursor with '*' by default > > Surely other search tools have some equivalent. This forced me to go look for it in emacs, and after 28 years, I've learned about isearch-forward-symbol-at-point, which is by default bound to [alt-s .]. But that's just another different keystroke I have to remember. Much easier if I can just use an expansion of the ctl-s (incremental search) that I already know and use for pretty much all searching within a single file.