From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: killing the result of isearch
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 15:01:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <852BAA28-2A50-4AD9-B8D6-9F06905A4395@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433bd3d0-a506-4d89-9d10-dcbfb0e23be0@default>
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 14:34, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> I must be missing something big...
>
> No, you're not.
I'm not sure that makes me feel better... But that you very much for the thorough reply.
>> I have an isearch that highlights a string, and I just want to delete that string.
>>
>> In other editors I'd just hit delete on that selection, but that won't work in emacs...
>
> Not in vanilla Emacs, no; it won't work.
> If you use Isearch+
Is there a way to emulate that in vanilla emacs?
Well, I guess yes, by creating the adequate function, etc.
But, isn't it something emacs users do normally? Search for a string and just delete it? Doesn't it look like a function that could be useful in vanilla emacs?
Jean-Christophe
> then you can hit `C-M-RET' to delete the
> search hit. (The current search hit is not the "selection",
> BTW, in the sense of being the Emacs region.)
>
> [If you prefer that the key for this be, say, the `<delete>'
> key, then just bind command `isearchp-act-on-demand' to
> `(kbd "<delete>")' in `isearch-mode-map'.]
>
> With Isearch+, `C-M-RET' performs an action on the current
> search hit. By default, the action is to replace it with
> some replacement text. And by default that replacement
> text is empty (""), i.e., the search hit is deleted.
>
> The value of option `isearchp-on-demand-action-function'
> is the function that acts on the current search hit, which
> it is passed when you hit `C-M-RET', along with the buffer
> start and end positions of the search hit.
>
> After applying the action, search moves to the next hit in
> the same search direction, so just repeating `C-M-RET'
> carries out the action on subsequent hits.
>
> With a prefix argument, `C-M-RET' prompts for the
> replacement text, which is used thereafter until you again
> use a prefix arg. (Again, no prefix arg means empty
> replacement text, i.e., deletion.)
>
> Since you can use a prefix arg at any time, you can
> provide different replacements for different search hits
> corresponding to the same search pattern.
>
> [To use a prefix arg within Isearch, you must set
> `isearch-allow-prefix' to non-`nil'.]
>
> There's more you can do with it. See here:
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IsearchPlus#isearchp-act-on-demand
>
Jean-Christophe Helary
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-07 2:41 killing the result of isearch Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 5:34 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 6:01 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2017-11-07 6:25 ` Søren Pilgård
[not found] ` <mailman.3103.1510035932.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-07 7:07 ` Loris Bennett
2017-11-07 7:49 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 8:43 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
[not found] ` <mailman.3106.1510044223.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-07 10:49 ` Loris Bennett
2017-11-07 12:45 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 15:51 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 16:46 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 22:38 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 16:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-07 17:24 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 17:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-11-08 8:21 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-11-08 13:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-11 15:36 ` Charles A. Roelli
[not found] ` <mailman.3114.1510058721.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-07 15:08 ` Loris Bennett
2017-11-07 15:28 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 16:24 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 22:34 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 22:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-08 22:24 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-11-08 22:44 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-08 23:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-09 21:38 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-11-10 13:11 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-10 16:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 8:31 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-11-07 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 20:59 ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-07 22:10 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 22:53 ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-07 23:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-08 4:27 ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-08 5:29 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-08 18:50 ` Bob Proulx
2017-11-07 17:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-07 22:59 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-12 20:02 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-11-12 22:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-13 21:17 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-11-13 22:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-20 3:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-11-15 14:48 ` Emanuel Berg
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