From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "CarlC" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Search Next Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:10:32 GMT Organization: Road Runner - Texas Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1P2J9.122644$Gc.3967898@twister.austin.rr.com> <84n0nep8bh.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039529749 27180 80.91.224.249 (10 Dec 2002 14:15:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18LlAn-00073l-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:15:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LlAq-00089b-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:15:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!nntpserver.com!news-west.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!twister.austin.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.68.161.15 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: twister.austin.rr.com 1039529432 66.68.161.15 (Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:10:32 CST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:10:32 CST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107943 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4482 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4482 "Kai Großjohann" wrote in message news:84n0nep8bh.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de... > "CarlC" writes: > > > session stores search-ring as a global list of search strings. C-s > > C-s works from the last string in this global list. I want to > > remember the last search string for the individual file. > > Sounds like an interesting feature, but I don't think Emacs has it. > Hm. I can't find the variable that would hold the history for > isearch. > > What happens if you do M-: (make-local-variable 'isearch-string) RET > in a buffer? Then C-s C-s in that buffer should remember the last > search from that buffer, instead of the last search in any buffer. I don't want to completely segregate search strings between buffers. When I save a file, I want emacs to "remember" the latest search string so that when I re-edit the file, C-s C-s will use that string. If I save one file right after another, they would have the same search string saved. Seems trivial, but is useful in our environment.