Re: Scrolling text erases the search highlight

[Gabriel TEIXEIRA <gabriel_teixeira@sdesigns.eu>]

On 13/07/2010 15:54, Gabriel TEIXEIRA wrote:
> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 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
>
>
Hello back

After I recompiled my emacs to the 24.0.50.1, the problems of scrolling 
were solved mostly, but now after some time of usage I noticed a weird 
behaviour: Now that I can scroll freely, I noticed that it won't scroll 
beyond the position were the cursor is located (meaning that if I have 
one result in the line 150 and my text has 1000 lines and my buffer is 
80 lines tall, I can't scroll to see above the line 70 nor after the 
line 230), so I am limited to scrolling the buffer that is near a result 
of the searched text, and if I try to move the cursor away in order to 
scroll more or just to change some text around it will erase the search 
too (and I come back with the original problem again). Any idea to how 
to solve that?

Thanks for the attention
Gabriel Teixeira