From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Searching for the same text, in the same sessions but in a different window
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:52:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B893FB2.8040107@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27721312.post@talk.nabble.com>
jrocha wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have recently started using emacs in the Linux environment. I am using
> emacs version 21.3.1 on a SUSE SP1 install of Linux. This is the version
> used by our company, and I don't get to control the Linux version.
>
> Anyway, I use emacs quite a bit on Solaris platforms and the functionality I
> was use to was as follows:
>
> 1. Use emacs to view a text file.
>
> 2. Move the cursor to the beginning of a word I want to search for, hit
> CTRL-S to start the search and then CTRL-W to expand the search for the
> whole word.
>
> 3. At this point I can CTRL-S through the file in this window and search for
> this selected word.
>
> 4. Next I use CTRL-X 5 2 to open a new window, and in that window I open a
> different text file.
>
> 5. At this point I can do CTRL-S to search for the string I was looking for
> back in step 3,in the first file.
>
> 6. I start a NEW search in this second window for some other string. Using
> the same method. CTRL-S to start the search, CTRL-W to search for the word,
> etc. This is done in window #2.
>
> 7. Now, if I go back to window #1 and invoke CTRL-S in the old window, I
> want to search for the new string in the old (#1) window too.
>
> This works fine in my Solaris emacs, but this is not the behavior in Linux
> emacs. In Linux emacs, it remembers my OLD search string and searches for
> that instead. Its like the search string is relevant to the window. I don't
> want the Linux behavior.
>
> I've tried looking through options, but I haven't stumbled across any
> settings to adjust this behavior.
>
> Does anyone know if this is a limation of Emacs on Linux, or is it
> controllable by customization?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -=John
Hi,
with GNU Emacs 23.1.92.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2010-02-19 on Suse10.3
behaviour is as you described at Solaris.
Have a look if/how isearch related variables are customized or set local.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-27 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 17:44 Searching for the same text, in the same sessions but in a different window jrocha
2010-02-27 15:52 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2010-02-27 16:06 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-01 17:01 ` jrocha
2010-03-01 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-01 17:34 ` jrocha
2010-02-28 6:38 ` tomas
2010-03-01 16:56 ` jrocha
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