From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gabriel TEIXEIRA Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Scrolling text erases the search highlight Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:54:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4C3C701B.7060704@sdesigns.eu> References: <4C3B0AE2.3060507@sdesigns.eu> <4C3C24DA.6080303@sdesigns.eu> 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: dough.gmane.org 1279029345 21299 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2010 13:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:55:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 15:55:41 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYfxQ-0004FY-Fv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:55:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYfxN-0007um-PZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32879 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYfwo-0007kY-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYfwd-00059P-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from a.mx.sdesigns.eu ([78.31.43.6]:13123) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYfwd-000582-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:54:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.27.0.213] (kobe.france.sdesigns.com [172.27.0.213]) by mailhost.france.sdesigns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82EE6164072 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:54:35 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:74186 Archived-At: On 13/07/2010 15:38, Deniz Dogan wrote: > 2010/7/13 Gabriel TEIXEIRA: > >> On 13/07/2010 09:14, Deniz Dogan wrote: >> >> >>> 2010/7/12 Qiang Guo: >>> >>> >>>> 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? >> >> >> >> > 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