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Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g') |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:48:20 +0200 |
> From: Nix <address@hidden>
> Emacs: (setq software-quality (/ 1 number-of-authors))
> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:26:21 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
> Drew Adams <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>
> Perhaps I'm just an idiot, but I always thought the current
> isearch behaviour of not immediately quitting when C-g was stuck on a
> failed search was a *bug*. Only now, after Drew commented on it, do I
> notice that it's removing the unfound component of the failed search:
> i.e., it's a feature, but unless you spend your time looking at the echo
> area while isearching (and who does that?) they'll never notice it.
They could read the manual.
15.1.3 Errors in Incremental Search
-----------------------------------
If your string is not found at all, the echo area says `Failing
I-Search', and the cursor moves past the place where Emacs found as
much of your string as it could. Thus, if you search for `FOOT', and
there is no `FOOT', you might see the cursor after the `FOO' in `FOOL'.
In the echo area, the part of the search string that failed to match is
highlighted using the face `isearch-fail'.
At this point, there are several things you can do. If your string
was mistyped, you can use <DEL> to erase some of it and correct it. If
you like the place you have found, you can type <RET> to remain there.
Or you can type `C-g', which removes from the search string the
characters that could not be found (the `T' in `FOOT'), leaving those
that were found (the `FOO' in `FOOT'). A second `C-g' at that point
cancels the search entirely, returning point to where it was when the
search started.
The quit command, `C-g', does special things during searches; just
what it does depends on the status of the search. If the search has
found what you specified and is waiting for input, `C-g' cancels the
entire search, moving the cursor back to where you started the search.
If `C-g' is typed when there are characters in the search string that
have not been found--because Emacs is still searching for them, or
because it has failed to find them--then the search string characters
which have not been found are discarded from the search string. With
them gone, the search is now successful and waiting for more input, so
a second `C-g' will cancel the entire search.
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), (continued)
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Juri Linkov, 2012/10/01
- RE: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Drew Adams, 2012/10/01
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Dani Moncayo, 2012/10/01
- RE: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Drew Adams, 2012/10/01
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Christopher Monsanto, 2012/10/01
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Lennart Borgman, 2012/10/01
- RE: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Drew Adams, 2012/10/01
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Dani Moncayo, 2012/10/01
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Nix, 2012/10/02
- RE: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Drew Adams, 2012/10/02
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Nix, 2012/10/04
- Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Andrew W. Nosenko, 2012/10/05
- RE: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Drew Adams, 2012/10/01
- RE: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g'), Drew Adams, 2012/10/01