Re: Newbie: Interactive goto-line ?!

[Alan Mackenzie]

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> wrote on Thu, 26 Feb 2004 08:08:09
+0100:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> As mentioned here in the past, I use C-s by hacking my isearch.el such
>> that it does "incremental goto-line" when the search string is made of
>> digits only.

> This sounds très cool.  Have you posted it to gnu.emacs.sources
> before?  If the feature isn't easily extractable from isearch.el, then
> it might be useful to provide hooks in isearch.el that allow for
> putting in this feature, then to provide an extra *.el file that does
> this.

I agree!

> Or maybe it's sufficient to add Yet Another User Option.

> WDYT?

Install it into isearch.el and make it user option, Stefan!

> Kai

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