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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: isearch-yank-until-char
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:31:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlfvs0ybp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvainv64.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Thu,  15 Aug 2019 21:24:51 +0300")

>> I like the idea, but would welcome even more warmly an isearch which
>> yanks "whatever text is skipped by the next command" so it can be used
>> to yank the next word, sexp, char, ...
> A.k.a. isearch-yank-on-move.

I was thinking of it more as a prefix command than a variable, but other
than that, yes.

> Since there is no non-isearch global command to skip to the next char
> that could be used by isearch-yank-on-move, a fictional command is needed
> like this
>
>   (defun skip-to-char (arg char)
>     (interactive "^p\ncSkip to char: ")
>     (search-forward (char-to-string char) nil nil arg)
>     (forward-char -1))

Indeed,


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-17 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-14  3:05 PATCH: isearch-yank-until-char Karl Fogel
2019-08-14 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-14 16:41   ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-14 16:48     ` Drew Adams
2019-08-14 17:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-14 17:22       ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-14 17:51         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-14 17:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-14 20:39   ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-14 20:34 ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-16  4:53   ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-16 17:52     ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-25  2:14       ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-25  3:22         ` Drew Adams
2019-08-25 20:03           ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-26  1:14             ` Drew Adams
2019-08-26  5:20           ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-26 14:50             ` Drew Adams
2019-08-26 17:51               ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-26 19:36                 ` Drew Adams
2019-08-26 21:29                   ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-26 21:57                     ` Drew Adams
2019-08-26 22:21                       ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-26 22:43                         ` Drew Adams
2019-09-04 16:47                           ` Karl Fogel
2019-09-04 17:00                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-12 17:44                               ` Karl Fogel
2019-09-16 21:24                   ` Drew Adams
2019-09-17 16:02                     ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-26 21:46                 ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-26 21:52                   ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-26 22:03                   ` Drew Adams
2019-08-26 22:19                     ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-26 22:33                       ` Karl Fogel
2019-08-26 22:40                       ` Drew Adams
2019-08-27 21:31                         ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-27 22:52                           ` Drew Adams
2019-08-27 23:15                             ` Drew Adams
2019-08-25 19:58         ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-14 22:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-08-15 18:24   ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-17 12:31     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-08-17 22:51       ` Juri Linkov
2019-08-16  5:11   ` Karl Fogel
     [not found] <<87tvakfnv4.fsf@red-bean.com>
     [not found] ` <<835zmzsuau.fsf@gnu.org>
2019-08-14 15:24   ` Drew Adams

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