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: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:20:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4C495EC6.6070704@sdesigns.eu> References: <4C3B0AE2.3060507@sdesigns.eu> <4C3C24DA.6080303@sdesigns.eu> <4C3C701B.7060704@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 1279876873 13726 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2010 09:21:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:21:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 23 11:21:12 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 1OcERK-0006ij-4Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:21:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OcERJ-0004ln-DV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59457 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OcEQR-0004kr-NV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcEQQ-0005BK-99 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from a.mx.sdesigns.eu ([78.31.43.6]:26305) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OcEQQ-00057N-3I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:20:14 -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 16FF6164072 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:20:06 +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: <4C3C701B.7060704@sdesigns.eu> 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:74248 Archived-At: On 13/07/2010 15:54, Gabriel TEIXEIRA wrote: > 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 > > 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