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From: Albert Reiner <areiner@tph.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: eval: (search-forward)
Date: 11 Oct 2004 12:16:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vw8u0t1tv8p.fsf@berry.phys.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bjju0t13ct3.fsf@termo1.fi.uib.no

> 1. Define the local variable work-string (or whatever) *as a
>    string*, in the relevant file.
> 
> 2. The following function in .emacs or somewhere:
> 
> (defun goto-work ()
>      (if (boundp 'work-string)
>       (progn
> 	(goto-char (point-min))
> 	(unless (search-forward work-string (point-max) 't)
> 	  (message (format "Could not find \"%s\" in buffer" work-string))))))
> 	  
> 3. (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'goto-work)

Wonderful, works beautifully!

Thanks,

Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-11 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-09 12:48 eval: (search-forward) Albert Reiner
2004-10-10 12:33 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-10-10 14:48   ` Albert Reiner
2004-10-11  7:59     ` Joakim Hove
2004-10-11 10:16       ` Albert Reiner [this message]
2004-10-12 13:57       ` Albert Reiner
2004-10-18  7:02         ` Joakim Hove
2004-10-24 16:11           ` eval: (search-forward) (Solved) Albert Reiner
2004-10-11  9:40     ` eval: (search-forward) Oliver Scholz
2004-10-11 10:09       ` Albert Reiner

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