Re: C-l exits incremental searching

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

Dnia 2013-11-06, o godz. 13:27:37
Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> napisał(a):

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> 
> Hi Marcin,
> 
> > the title says it all.  Is it a feature or a bug?  Or maybe it could
> > be overriden in the config somehow?  (Use case: I'm using isearch to
> > navigate/skim through the buffer, and what I find is in the last
> > line
> > - but I'd prefer to see some context, so I hit C-l. But now isearch
> > is gone, and I have to press C-u C-s again (since it was a regex
> > search). If C-l didn't quit isearch, I could just hit another C-s,
> > which would be a lot easier.
> 
> No bug, but a configurable option:
> 
> ,----[ (info "(emacs)Not Exiting Isearch") ]
> | Scrolling Commands
> |      Normally, scrolling commands exit incremental search.  If you
> |      change the variable ‘isearch-allow-scroll’ to a non-‘nil’
> value, |      that enables the use of the scroll-bar, as well as
> keyboard |      scrolling commands like ‘C-v’, ‘M-v’, and ‘C-l’ (*note
> |      Scrolling::).
> `----

Ooops... Did not do my homework:(.  Thanks a lot!

> Bye,
> Tassilo

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
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Adam Mickiewicz University