From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Search for selected tex Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:45:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4853F593.2040009@gmail.com> References: <4853F20B.5030802@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213461948 13122 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 16:45:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Lorenzo Isella Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 14 18:46:30 2008 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 4.50) id 1K7YtV-0007xO-Oa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:46:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7Ysh-00079P-Ar for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7YsP-00078S-3K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K7YsN-00077o-JI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33909 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7YsN-00077h-C9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:59050) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K7YsN-0000Sq-1g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:62311 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K7YsK-00024Q-94; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:45:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <4853F20B.5030802@gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080614-1, 2008-06-14), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1K7YsK-00024Q-94. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1K7YsK-00024Q-94 c329e54d4bc5d40790d341ed2beff79a X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:54838 Archived-At: 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