From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with search-forward in *Help* buffers Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:03:59 +0100 Message-ID: <87sfi69uio.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40197"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:viCULcZIoHAcCK4Vtv8OTRPkVyg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 26 16:12:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oywrH-000AGY-Ee for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 16:12:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oywqu-0005OO-Sg; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 10:12:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oynML-0001nQ-77 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oynMI-0001hf-CX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:04:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oynMG-0002zk-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:04:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 10:12:21 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141170 Archived-At: Eduardo Ochs wrote: > ;; This is a simplified version of: > ;; (find-efunction 'ee-goto-position) > ;; http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-blinks.el.html#ee-goto-position > (defun ee-goto-position-mini (&optional str &rest strs) > (when str > (goto-char (point-min)) > (search-forward str) > (dolist (s strs) > (search-forward s)))) You can simplify even further with just (&rest strs) since that is optional in its own way with nil/the empty list ... > ;; This is a simplified version of: > ;; (find-efunction 'find-dbsw-call) > ;; http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-blinks.el.html#find-dbsw > (defun find-dbsw-call-mini (sexp &rest pos-spec-list) > (let ((display-buffer-overriding-action '(display-buffer-same-window))) > (eval sexp)) > (apply 'ee-goto-position-mini pos-spec-list)) Why `apply'? > and searches for the first occurrence of the string "Parent" > in it. But in the other ones the search doesn't work - after > the (find-dbsw-call-mini ...) is run the point is elsewhere. > What is happening here? And do you have any suggestions of > how to fix that? You must do something like (progn (describe-function #'next-line) (with-current-buffer (help-buffer) (search-forward "line-move-visual") )) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal