Re: Scrolling text erases the search highlight

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/7/13 Gabriel TEIXEIRA <gabriel_teixeira@sdesigns.eu>:
> On 13/07/2010 09:14, Deniz Dogan wrote:
>
>> 2010/7/12 Qiang Guo<mcknight0219@gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> You may want to check variable 'isearch-allow-scroll'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This is a good suggestion. But you may also want to know about "M-s o".
>>
>> M-s o runs the command occur, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
>> function in `replace.el'.
>>
>> It is bound to M-s o.
>>
>> (occur REGEXP&optional NLINES)
>>
>> Show all lines in the current buffer containing a match for REGEXP.
>> This function can not handle matches that span more than one line.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for the answers and sorry for the multiple messages, the M-s o is
>
> very useful, but the isearch-allow-scroll doesn't work very well with me. It
> will conserve the search if I do C-l or C-v, but won't if I use the mouse
> scroll wheel or if I use the arrow keys to move the cursor (which are the
> way I scroll the screen mostly). I want something that works similar to the
> Linux man search, the vim or the gedit, that conserves the highlight as long
> as the search is erased. Any other suggestions?
>
>
>

For what it's worth, scrolling using the mouse works fine using: GNU
Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-07-12 on 3249CTO

-- 
Deniz Dogan