Re: Keyboard macro with Isearch

["Aaron S. Hawley" <Aaron.Hawley@uvm.edu>]

This problem is now a much shorter bug report:

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2005-10/msg00534.html>

/a

I wrote on Mon, 22 Aug 2005,

> After the confusion from my original post, I am still looking for a
> solution to the "keyboard macros with Isearch" problem.
>
> Kevin Boyd's response though not helpful for my problem does show exactly
> what the problem is with Isearch.  If one wanted an Emacs macro using
> Isearch to terminate a search, then one could explicityly add `RET' (or
> for Kevin `C-m')  to terminate the search.  But even without `RET', a
> macro using search terminates the search when the macro ends, rather than
> keeping the search interactive.
>
> I wrote on 9 August 2005:
>
> > Isearch doesn't play nice with keyboard macros.
> >
> > One of the simplest macros that could use Isearch would to be a simple
> > call of isearch-forward using C-s.  The macro could be created with:
> >
> >   C-x ( C-s C-x ) C-x C-k b C-.
> >
> > or evaluating:
> >
> >   (global-set-key [?\C-.] "\C-s")
> >
> > Unfortunately, calling such a macro causes Isearch to halt taking
> > input rather than stay "interactive" and take input from the user for
> > the search string and continue highlighting any matches.
> >
> > The above is admittedly not a useful example, but I'm interested how
> > to store specific interactive searches with Isearch as macros, like
> > `C-s C-w' or anything more complicated, and then bounding them to
> > shorter key sequences like `C-.' or <f5>.  Using the `C-s C-w'
> > example:
> >
> >   C-x ( C-s C-w C-x ) C-x C-k b C-.
> >
> > or evaluating:
> >
> >   (global-set-key [?\C-.] "\C-s\C-w")
> >
> > The search works by going to the end of the current word, but halts
> > and gives the message, "Mark saved where search started".
> >
> > It's not clear to me how create customizations for calling Isearch,
> > unless you use not only Emacs Lisp but make hacks useing Isearch's
> > internals.
> >
> > This code in the function isearch-done in file isearch.el looks like
> > at least one suspect for bias against macros:
> >
> >               (or executing-kbd-macro (> (minibuffer-depth) 0)
> >                   (message "Mark saved where search started"))))))
> >
> > /a