Re: isearch and yank word doubt

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Kevin,

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> On 5/30/13 12:42 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> according to the manual the C-s C-w yanks the next word the cursor is
>> on as the string to search with isearch. Often I found myself having
>> the cursor in the middle of a word, so I have to go back to the
>> beginning and then do the yank, is there a better way to instrument
>> C-s C-w to get the word the cursor is in?
>
> I like it!
>
> (defun isearch-yank-word-at-point ()
>   "Pull the word around point from buffer into search string."
>   (interactive)
>   ;; see isearch-yank-word-or-char and isearch-yank-internal:
>   (isearch-yank-string
>    (save-excursion
>      (when (and (not isearch-forward) isearch-other-end)
>        (goto-char isearch-other-end))
>      (when (= (char-syntax (or (char-after (1- (point))) 0)) ?w)
>        (forward-word -1))
>      (buffer-substring-no-properties (point)
>                                    (progn (forward-word 1) (point))))))
>
> (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-w" 'isearch-yank-word-at-point)

One detail I don't like in the above: when C-s C-w'ing, it directly jumps to
the next occurrence of the searched string. I find it'd be better if it'd stay
on the current word, highlighting it completely.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban