Re: Request for enhancement: Scrolling (etc.) in incremental search.

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Kim F. Storm wrote:

>Alan Mackenzie <none@example.invalid> writes:

>> UNFORTUNATELY, as soon as I do any of the above, the search is
>> terminated, and I find it more irritating than most people might
>> believe

>Except for the prefix arg handling (creeping featurism IMO :-), you can
>achieve the same effect by suitable bindings in isearch-mode-map, e.g.

>(define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-l" 'recenter)
>(define-key isearch-mode-map [prior] 'scroll-down)
>(define-key isearch-mode-map [next] 'scroll-up)

This way, you don't get the lazy-highlighting after C-l on the parts of
the window that weren't previously visible.  Also scroll-\(up\|down\)
can scroll the current search string at point out of the window.  This
wrenches point away from the current search string, yet still leaves
isearch-mode active.

I think that the prefix arg stuff is a good idea.  Somebody (else) is
going to want to do M-2 <next> to scroll the text up 2 lines.

>Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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