Re: killing the result of isearch

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 1:46, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>>> It does result in an object you can act upon, if you want
>>> that.
>> 
>> Would you mind being more specific ?
> 
> The code finds a match (over and over: successive matches).
> Code (hence you) can act on the current match.  Or code/you
> can act on only the last match that you visit.
> 
> Everything you need to code the feature you ask for is in the
> Isearch source code.  If you don't want to dig into that code
> yourself, you're lucky: Isearch+ already provides what you need:

Thank you. I'll dig into the code because I'd like to understand.

>> I have no problem using new libraries, but I want to understand why I am
>> missing what I think I am missing. If I understood searches (isearches ?)
>> better, maybe I would not have my questions.
> 
> You are missing what you think you are missing from vanilla
> Emacs.  Why?  Because either (1) no one has considered them
> important/useful enough to add or (2) no one has volunteered
> to work on implementing them.

I was not thinking of *that* missing :) I understand what emacs is. I meant 
missing as  failing to understand the design/feature.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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