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Re: Search for selected tex
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Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
Re: Search for selected tex |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:00:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> Lorenzo Isella wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I would like to be able to select some text with C-space and then
>> look for it inside the buffer.
>> I found some functions online which I modified to get:
>>
>> ;; a function to search the selected text
>>
>> (defun my-search-forward (begin end)
>> (interactive (list (point) (mark)))
>> (let ((text (filter-buffer-substring begin end nil t)))
>> (goto-char (max begin end))
>> (let ((found-pos (search-forward text nil t)))
>> (if (not found-pos)
>> (progn
>> (goto-char begin)
>> (error "not found"))
>> (progn
>> (goto-char found-pos)
>> (set-mark (- found-pos (length text))))))))
>>
>>
>> (define-key global-map [(control q )] 'my-search-forward)
>>
>>
>> It is almost there but not yet...
>> If I highlight some text, I can look for it with C-q, but once at
>> the end of the buffer, it stops searching (whereas I would like it
>> to search from the beginning of the buffer).
>> If then I move to the beginning of the buffer, not everything above
>> my last position is selected, but also the function loses memory of
>> what I was looking for...
>> Anybody can give me some help? Apologies if there is already and
>> emacs command for that, but my online search was not fruitful.
>> Cheers
>
>
> There is some code for similar wishes in
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SearchAtPoint
>
>
You can also use isearch-forward like that:
put the point at begining of text and then hit C-s C-w C-w C-w ....
until you are at the end of text and then C-s C-s ...etc...
--
A + Thierry
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