Re: How to get a fixed search string into the editable area of an isearch.

[Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>]

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On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:

>
> Maybe this is what you need?
>
>   (defun isearch-for-string ()
>     (interactive)
>     (isearch-forward nil 1)
>     (isearch-yank-string "test"))
>

Thank you.  That is a nice clean-looking solution.  I had tried
isearch-yank-string but missed the recursive-minibuffer argument to the
isearch-forward, without which it doesn't work at all which led me to think
that isearch-yank-string was not the right approach.  The only limitation
with this solution is that if you start to delete search characters, the
entire search string provided to the yank is deleted at once rather than
character by character.  A pretty minor limitation which is resolved by the
first solution, using unread-command-events.

Thanks to all, these have been very helpful and definitely should find some
place in the isearch documentation.

Bob

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