From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Occur should use the region as input if it's active Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389898588 8721 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 18:56:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:56:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 19:56:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3s7F-0000yK-V5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:56:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34552 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3s7F-0007uW-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:56:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52407) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3s75-0007uK-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:56:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3s6y-0000HF-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3s6x-0000GC-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3s6w-0000QI-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:56:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-21-76-52.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.76.52]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:56:14 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-76-52.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:56:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.76.52 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.16) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168564 Archived-At: If often happens to me that I'm perusing a buffer and I want to search for some word or phrase in it. To do this I simply select the text and use this code to instantly get occur matches of it: (defun my-occur () (interactive) (if (use-region-p) (occur (buffer-substring-no-properties (region-beginning) (region-end))) (call-interactively 'occur))) Shouldn't the builtin occur do this? It's quite convenient and efficient and in my experience most of the occur searches are of these kind (searching for something I see) and it's less often that I actualy need to type in the search term.