> On Nov 8, 2017, at 0:26, Drew Adams wrote: > > You don't need to have the search hit be selected as the > active region; you just need to act on it. That's correct. I am just confused by the fact that the hit looks like a region and does not behave like one. But then I don't know what kind of object a hit must be to be able to be acted upon. I just don't know enough about emacs. Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- @brandelune http://mac4translators.blogspot.com