Re: Scrolling text erases the search highlight

[Gabriel TEIXEIRA <gabriel_teixeira@sdesigns.eu>]

On 13/07/2010 15:38, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> 2010/7/13 Gabriel TEIXEIRA<gabriel_teixeira@sdesigns.eu>:
>    
>> On 13/07/2010 09:14, Deniz Dogan wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> 2010/7/12 Qiang Guo<mcknight0219@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> You may want to check variable 'isearch-allow-scroll'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> This is a good suggestion. But you may also want to know about "M-s o".
>>>
>>> M-s o runs the command occur, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
>>> function in `replace.el'.
>>>
>>> It is bound to M-s o.
>>>
>>> (occur REGEXP&optional NLINES)
>>>
>>> Show all lines in the current buffer containing a match for REGEXP.
>>> This function can not handle matches that span more than one line.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Thanks for the answers and sorry for the multiple messages, the M-s o is
>>
>> very useful, but the isearch-allow-scroll doesn't work very well with me. It
>> will conserve the search if I do C-l or C-v, but won't if I use the mouse
>> scroll wheel or if I use the arrow keys to move the cursor (which are the
>> way I scroll the screen mostly). I want something that works similar to the
>> Linux man search, the vim or the gedit, that conserves the highlight as long
>> as the search is erased. Any other suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
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> For what it's worth, scrolling using the mouse works fine using: GNU
> Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-07-12 on 3249CTO
>
>    
Yes, I'm using version 23.1.1. I couldn't realize that this could be the 
version of emacs. I will install a newer version to check it out. 
Hopefully won't break with my .emacs config file :)
Many many thanks for your help