From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Clementson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: doc-view.el now allows searching Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:44:11 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87wsvnfoyp.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87d4xcoxyn.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <878x7ylhdk.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87fy26gn55.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <874pil8f2m.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87odgsjef5.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87absbg53e.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <878x7ujfov.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87odgptrwx.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <877indtf1o.fsf_-_@baldur.tsdh.de> <87zm085eac.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188578794 6262 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2007 16:46:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:46:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 31 18:46:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IR9dX-0000k0-4Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IR9dW-00025V-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:46:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IR9bm-0000R1-Co for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IR9bk-0000Qd-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IR9bk-0000Qa-8U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IR9bj-0004P3-OS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IR9bX-0002wg-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:44:19 +0200 Original-Received: from s010600095bf8da6e.vn.shawcable.net ([24.87.84.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:44:19 +0200 Original-Received: from billclem by s010600095bf8da6e.vn.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:44:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 49 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s010600095bf8da6e.vn.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ch7t8xAsASDwpxQn8Lvap0/vCf8= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:47033 Archived-At: Hi Tassilo, Tassilo Horn writes: > Bill Clementson writes: >> Tassilo Horn writes: >>> Hey, it's a whole bunch of fun. I've just finished implementing a >>> new feature: Now you can REGEXP-SEARCH in documents. Please git-pull >>> and give it a try. The commentary explains how to use it. >> >> Hey, what a coincidence - I was just about to write a note saying >> something along the lines of "now that the speed issue has been >> addressed, the biggest remaining shortfall is..." and you went and >> addressed it before I finished writing the post! ;-) > > Something in my head whispered: "Bill wants to search documents... > search documents... uooouuuhhh!" Good to hear that my telepathic, DWIW utility is working properly. It also is slated to appear in CVS Emacs shortly. ;-) >> It would be nice if there was some way of highlighting the matching >> terms in the document; > > Haha, this one was nice! :-) I thought you would find that amusing. ;-) >> however, I can't see how you would be able to do that. Alternatively, >> as each matching page is displayed with "C-S-n", perhaps you could >> display at the bottom of the page the matches on that page with a >> certain amount of context - (e.g. - 10 words on either side of each >> match). > > I'll address this later today. Great - I see you've already done it and I have a few comments in a separate reply. >> That would let the reader find the matches more easily on that page. > > Yes, when I tested the searching functionality I always thought: "Why's > that page a match, I cannot find that damn "foo" anywhere!" (Till some > minutes later I found that little "football" somewhere.) I have the same problem - if I don't have the phrase pointed out to me, I can spend ages trying to find it on the page. - Bill