From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Search for selected tex
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:45:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4853F593.2040009@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4853F20B.5030802@gmail.com>
Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> Dear All,
> I would like to be able to select some text with C-space and then look
> for it inside the buffer.
> I found some functions online which I modified to get:
>
> ;; a function to search the selected text
>
> (defun my-search-forward (begin end)
> (interactive (list (point) (mark)))
> (let ((text (filter-buffer-substring begin end nil t)))
> (goto-char (max begin end))
> (let ((found-pos (search-forward text nil t)))
> (if (not found-pos)
> (progn
> (goto-char begin)
> (error "not found"))
> (progn
> (goto-char found-pos)
> (set-mark (- found-pos (length text))))))))
>
>
> (define-key global-map [(control q )] 'my-search-forward)
>
>
> It is almost there but not yet...
> If I highlight some text, I can look for it with C-q, but once at the
> end of the buffer, it stops searching (whereas I would like it to search
> from the beginning of the buffer).
> If then I move to the beginning of the buffer, not everything above my
> last position is selected, but also the function loses memory of what I
> was looking for...
> Anybody can give me some help? Apologies if there is already and emacs
> command for that, but my online search was not fruitful.
> Cheers
There is some code for similar wishes in
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SearchAtPoint
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-14 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-14 16:30 Search for selected tex Lorenzo Isella
2008-06-14 16:45 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-06-14 17:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-06-15 0:15 ` Juanma
2008-06-14 17:03 ` Lorenzo Isella
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