From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I can't yank regexp for/into isearch-forward-regexp's pmpt Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:05:43 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154700491 8167 80.91.229.2 (4 Aug 2006 14:08:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 04 16:08:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G90L1-0006uw-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G90L0-0005ic-QO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G90Kj-0005gA-ES for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G90Ki-0005fE-5t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G90Kh-0005f7-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G90OG-0006DM-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G90KQ-0006ks-AM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:07:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:07:06 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:07:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36480 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > You might be able to do what you want with a little hacking: > > (defun isearch-yank-kill-as-regexp () > "Like `isearch-yank-kill', except during regular expression search: > Search for the text that matches the string (as a regexp) instead of > searching for the literal string itself." > (let ((isearch-regexp nil)) > (isearch-yank-kill))) > > (define-key isearch-mode-map "\M-z" 'isearch-yank-kill-as-regexp) Drew Adams points out that we need an (interactive) form between isearch-yank-kill-as-regexp's argument list and its doc string. He also reports: | 2. For some reason, when using `C-M-s' followed by `M-z', the search seems | to always start at the end of the buffer. So, it first fails, and then it | can succeed on overwrap search (repeating `C-s'). This problem doesn't occur | for simple `C-s' search. I'm not sure why this happens. I suspect it has something to do with the global binding of M-z to zap-to-char and/or the squirrely business with isearch-other-meta-char, which I don't understand. Does the problem go away if you bind a different meta-character or a control-character to isearch-yank-kill-as-regexp? -- Kevin