From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get isearch-string, but only if I was in isearch? Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:09:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87h93yismg.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87o9y7j3eo.fsf@mbork.pl> <87poimkgtv.fsf@drachen> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1486962597 4039 195.159.176.226 (13 Feb 2017 05:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 05:09:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50.3 Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 13 06:09:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cd8ta-0000FP-Pa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:09:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54574 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cd8tb-0005qf-Jy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:09:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cd8sw-0005pe-S5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:09:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cd8st-0006zs-MU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:09:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:36769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cd8st-0006zl-F4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:09:07 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02023E6A2E; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:09:05 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0z-roToAhp5T; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:09:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B5DE2E668F; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:09:01 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <87poimkgtv.fsf@drachen> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:112306 Archived-At: On 2017-02-13, at 02:41, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> Is there a way for an Emacs command to "know" that isearch was active >> when it was invoked? > > Looking at how things are implemented...maybe there isn't. Well, after I sent my message, it occurred to me that I could check if the first 7 characters of (symbol-name last-command) are "isearch". Not exactly a clean method (neither extremely reliable), but might work. >> (I could use an approach similar to the above, but with a longer list >> of commands, including most/all things from isearch-mode-map, but this >> seems fragile and far from elegant.) > > Maybe you could use `isearch-mode-end-hook' in some clever way? Hm. I could use it to set 'this-command to 'isearch. I wonder what could break then, though... > Regards, > > Michael. Thanks a lot! -- Marcin Borkowski