From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jrocha Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Searching for the same text, in the same sessions but in a different window Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:44:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <27721312.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267279646 7536 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2010 14:07:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:07:26 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 15:07:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlNK8-0001gS-VY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:07:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34170 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlNK8-0001xK-FQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nl4FJ-000429-42 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59185 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nl4FG-0003yc-Rr for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl4FF-0001iT-Ru for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:44:58 -0500 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:32891) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl4FF-0001i9-M4 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:44:57 -0500 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl4FE-00013r-RH for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:44:56 -0800 X-Nabble-From: jrr@cisco.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:59:15 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72197 Archived-At: Hello All, I have recently started using emacs in the Linux environment. I am using emacs version 21.3.1 on a SUSE SP1 install of Linux. This is the version used by our company, and I don't get to control the Linux version. Anyway, I use emacs quite a bit on Solaris platforms and the functionality I was use to was as follows: 1. Use emacs to view a text file. 2. Move the cursor to the beginning of a word I want to search for, hit CTRL-S to start the search and then CTRL-W to expand the search for the whole word. 3. At this point I can CTRL-S through the file in this window and search for this selected word. 4. Next I use CTRL-X 5 2 to open a new window, and in that window I open a different text file. 5. At this point I can do CTRL-S to search for the string I was looking for back in step 3,in the first file. 6. I start a NEW search in this second window for some other string. Using the same method. CTRL-S to start the search, CTRL-W to search for the word, etc. This is done in window #2. 7. Now, if I go back to window #1 and invoke CTRL-S in the old window, I want to search for the new string in the old (#1) window too. This works fine in my Solaris emacs, but this is not the behavior in Linux emacs. In Linux emacs, it remembers my OLD search string and searches for that instead. Its like the search string is relevant to the window. I don't want the Linux behavior. I've tried looking through options, but I haven't stumbled across any settings to adjust this behavior. Does anyone know if this is a limation of Emacs on Linux, or is it controllable by customization? Thanks in advance, -=John -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Searching-for-the-same-text%2C-in-the-same-sessions-but-in-a-different-window-tp27721312p27721312.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.