From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Incremental search of a package Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 23:55:31 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86d1m4yq7g.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <86h9bgyv4b.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469311236 21728 80.91.229.3 (23 Jul 2016 22:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:00:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 24 00:00:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bR4yC-0003HP-DY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:00:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bR4yB-00062l-Ih for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Jul 2016 18:00:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7oZFC3d4VBx+rwTWrR2uAGNRfBk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218605 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110916 Archived-At: egarrulo wrote: > I have tried, but the following code makes > Emacs loop on an error (therefore save your > work before trying it): > > (defun isearch-forward-package () > (interactive) > (add-hook 'isearch-mode-hook 'yank-package-line-regexp nil t) > (unwind-protect > (isearch-forward-regexp) > (remove-hook 'isearch-mode-hook 'yank-package-line-regexp t))) > > (defun yank-package-line-regexp () > (isearch-yank-string "^ ")) No, I mean, why can't you just search for the package name? Without any additional Elisp? Otherwise I'd doe something like this: (defun search-package (pack) (interactive "sPackage: ") (let ((regexp (format "^ %s" pack))) (if (search-forward-regexp regexp (point-max) t) ; NOERROR (back-to-indentation) (message "No package: %s" pack) ))) -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 58 Blogomatic articles -