From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: killing the result of isearch Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:47:16 +0100 Message-ID: <868tfganmj.fsf@zoho.com> References: <433bd3d0-a506-4d89-9d10-dcbfb0e23be0@default> <852BAA28-2A50-4AD9-B8D6-9F06905A4395@gmail.com> <87r2tava5x.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <87y3nigy86.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <8B436DA2-1C8B-471F-8D90-08C282864A70@gmail.com> <87375p6v08.fsf@gnuvola.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510148884 6772 195.159.176.226 (8 Nov 2017 13:48:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:48:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 08 14:47:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQhu-0001NP-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:47:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQi2-0003w5-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQha-0003vp-3Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQhW-0008Q3-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:47:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47060 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQhV-0008PZ-Ub for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eCQhJ-0008V5-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:47:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:pfUGe3HRsGNo+WjaujznarIbMCU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114812 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > The problem with emacs and searches, is that > you only search, you don't *find*, as in the > action of searching does not result in an > object that you can act upon. Which defeats > the purpose of searching. It is called searching but many times what happens is it is a form of navigation - a goto in the text buffer, if you will. Because I do this all the time, like one of the most common ways to position point, I get totally stressed out by the default "incremental" search. Here is some code if anyone else is like me and hasn't got his own file already http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/wrap-search.el -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573