Questions tagged [isearch]
is the incremental search facility that highlights matching text as characters are typed. isearch-forward and isearch-backward support searching characters, strings, and regexp.
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Cannot get rid of isearch overlays
The following code
(defun nordlow/isearch-previous-symbol-at-point ()
(interactive)
(cond ((eq last-command 'nordlow/isearch-previous-symbol-at-point)
(isearch-repeat-backward)) ;avoid ...
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search or occur for text with a certain face, or character properties?
I'm interested in finding zero-width spaces and similar "glyphless" characters in my buffer -- and more generally, text that's highlighted or has a certain face.
I can show zero-width spaces ...
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Rebinding navigation keys when using isearch
I've rebound most of my navigation keys using bind-keys* and am trying to create a uniform layout. But I have the problem that when I trigger isearch, point is not actually placed in the minibuffer ...
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Is it possible to make isearch to recognize space as other completion engines do?
For instance, in helm,
word1 word4.
It would match a line with
word1 word2 word3 word4.
Would it be possible to emulate that behavior with isearch?
Isearch doesn't match the line because it tries to ...
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How to check from elisp if isearch is in progress?
I have a background process which when finishes switches to a specific buffer. I don't want this process to interrupt my current isearch if I'm doing one, so I'd like to test if an isearch is in ...
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isearch-forward-regex does not find a regex found by re-builder
I wanted to create a regex to find these dates:
1966/08/20
2023/02/12
In re-builder I was able to build this:
"\([0-9]\{4\}\)/\([0-9]\{2\}\)/\([0-9]\{2\}\)"
In the buffer the dates are ...
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can't use `isearch-yank-word-or-char` in minibuffer-local-map?
I'd like to have occur's prompt in the minibuffer do the same that isearch does: C-w inserts the word at point in the main buffer into the minibuffer prompt. That keybinding, when doing isearch, calls ...
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searching for <beginningOfLine><Comma>
how can I (interactive) search for <beginningOfLine>,
I tried ^ which means beginning of line in perl
Also \A which does signified the same in ruby.
C-s ^,
C-s \A,
I also tried search-forward-...
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save symbol under point to kill ring upon pressing isearch-forward-symbol-at-point
I want isearch-forward-symbol-at-point to also save to the kill-ring. How can I accomplish that please?
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Can I bind a key as buffer local but not in the active keymap?
So I'm writing some custom functions to help me editing some guitar chords using LaTeX's songs package. I find convenient to rebind isearch-exit, so that when I press RET, the cursor is left at the ...
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Isearch + Dired fast navigation
After seeing this post and one of its comments, I am trying to implement the following convenient search pattern in dired:
Press C-s to start isearch
Type the substring I am looking for
Possibly jump ...
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Incremental Search by Yanking Thing at Point
I used to have the below function from https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SearchAtPoint#h5o-6 that allows to search for symbol under the cursor by typing C-s C-w, and by typing C-w, I would append the ...
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How to implement character folding (stripping Arabic text from diacritics or tashkeel aka text normalization or cleansing) when doing search in Emacs?
This is a follow-up question on a previous one here looking for a solution to this very common task of searching for a string in a text irrespective of the vowel diacritics associated with. Arabic ...
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Info mode isearch across nodes
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/info/Search-Text.html
Instead of using s in Emacs Info and in the stand-alone Info, you can use an incremental search started with C-s or C-r. It ...
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How to leave cursor at beginning of searched text in isearch?
Say I have this text:
|Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Where the | is the cursor, at the beginning of the line. I want to jump to the next occurrence of the sequence "...
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Repeat last isearch with all parameters
Everyone knows you can repeat the last I-search with C-s C-s, but that doesn't preserve all the parameters from the last search. As a concrete example, I often use symbol I-search (M-s _), and typing ...
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Org-cycle with TAB from isearch without RET
When I've isearched for something in a headline in org-mode, and my cursor is sitting on the headline I want: how do I org-cycle that headline with TAB? Currently I have to first press RET then TAB. ...
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regexp-isearch with fixed prefix
I'd like to search a buffer for headlines only. A headline is anything starting with the "*" character. Ideally, I'd invoke an interactive function which would take user input at the ...
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Search forward using word at point
I would like to search the current buffer for particular words.
To make a function that takes the word at point and searches for that word in the current buffer. Hopefully with match word ...
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Incremental search line highlight
When running incremental search by pressing C-s repeatedly (isearch-repeat-forward) is there a way to highlight, in addition to the matching string, the line where that string is found?
I would like ...
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How can I make isearch match phrases across line breaks?
Suppose I have a text document (e.g. org-mode, Markdown, etc.) in which I would like to search for the phrase "hello world". Unfortunately, if paragraphs in this document are filled (e.g. ...
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How can I replace all in symbol manner?
I am using following solution (How do I add a keybinding to use during an interactive isearch, `C-s ...`) to move over symbols in the buffer, which iterates over the matching symbols:
(define-key ...
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allign string to the right of the screen in isearch echo area
Since emacs 27.1 isearch can show how many matches there are in the buffer.
I enabled it like this:
(setq isearch-lazy-highlight t
isearch-lazy-count t
lazy-count-prefix-format ""...
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consult command for isearch?
I was using ivy+swiper for a while, and it has swiper-from-isearch which gives a nice occur-like UI for finding isearch matches. I switched to vertico + consult recently.
I see that consult has ...
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searching for explicit spaces, without reinterpretation
Often I'll search (an ordinary i-search) for a sequence of two spaces, or three, or four.
But on one machine I'm using, emacs by default appears to be in some mode where searches for spaces are ...
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How to remove characters causing encoding error
When I visit any file under a certain file tree, emacs spits out this error:
These default coding systems were tried to encode text
in the buffer ‘ *temp file*’:
(utf-8 (7862 . 4194279) (14646 . ...
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Is there a way to add display annotation to the buffer text so that it's searchable?
Suppose I have a text data file with various data values which the computer can parse easily, but it's not easy to read for a human.
In order to make the file easier to read I'd add display only ...
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Make undo during I-search revert last call to ding
Entering a failing search string during I-search triggers a call to ding(). If this happens during a macro recording that ding when the macro is being played will abort the macro which in turns ...
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How to use "arrow-up" button to scroll in searched words history immediately after using isearch-forward
Is there any way to use "arrow-up" button to scroll in latest searched words immediately after using isearch-forward?
For now, in order to use the "arrow-up" key for this purpose, ...
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Emacs 27: How to jump to backward found word when switched into reverse incremental search?
I am trying to apply following solution(How to jump to backward found word when switched into reverse incremental search?) into Emacs >27.1, (which works in emacs 26.3):
(define-advice isearch-...
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Isearch-forward org-timestamp in german time format
In org mode I use a german time format for timestamps
(setq org-time-stamp-custom-formats '("<%a. %d.%m.%Y>" . "<%a. %d.%m.%Y %H:%M>"))
For example <Fr. 25.06.2021&...
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Mac OS and possibly other GUIs: Why is default "s-g" behaving differently from "C-s" in isearch-mode
I don't really want s-g to exit the Isearch minor mode but it does. The reason this is happening to me is unclear, because investigation of the binding of s-g reveals it is supposed to be a standard ...
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isearch buffer greyed out/blurred after update to macOS 11.3
I'm running Mac Port version of emacs 27.2 on macOS big sur. I recently updated to macos 11.3, and I'm having some strange behavior when I do a C-s search. In around 75% of instances, the entire ...
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key binding isearch-forward with Greek keyboard
I use Emacs with various languages and have had trouble invoking isearch-forward from a keystroke when my keyboard layout (OS-level) is set to Greek. If I try the usual C-s, it says there is no ...
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How to discard line-number highlight during i-search?
During the i-search if I use dracula theme it highlights the line-number if the searched word is the first in the line.
Example view:
If I uncomment (load-theme 'dracula t) the example view would be ...
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How to make Isearch highlight more matches when I scroll?
upon having used Isearch or C-u C-s to highlight a word, when I use then C-v or M-v for scrolling the highlights remain due to setting
(setq-default
isearch-allow-scroll t
lazy-highlight-...
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Yanking into a regexp isearch escapes the metacharacters
I noticed today that when I yank a string containing regexp metacharacters into an active regexp isearch, the metacharacters all get escaped. For example, if I've killed the text foo* and yank that ...
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How to delete the search term in Emacs?
I have a question regarding the search term and how it's saved in Emacs, actually I want to know how to clear it.
You know how you can clear the search results highlighting with (evil-search-clear-...
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Searching in a subtree in orgmode without narrowing
Is there a way to search in org mode in emacs in a certain subtree without narrowing or "narrowing" and "widening" the way to go?
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How can I get the search string from incremental regexp search to use with replace regexp
If I want to do a replace-regexp I usually start with a isearch-forward-regexp so I can get immediate visual feedback on the search string.
From there I'd like to grab the search string for using in ...
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Is it possible to prevent screen flashing on combination of `isearch` and `recenter`?
I have followed answer for Emacs: Combine iseach-forward and recenter-top-bottom, replacing (recenter-top-bottom) to (recenter).
My goal is to re-center after each isearch-forward or isearch-backward. ...
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How to enable linum-mode only during I-search?
linum-line it not enabled when emacs is started.
I just want to enable linum-mode (see the line numbers) during I-search and disable it when I-search: is ended. Is it possible?
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Swiper go to next matching line instead of next match?
When I use swiper to search and I press the down arrow key, it always goes to the next match even if that match is on the same line. Is there an easy way to go to the next line that has a match ...
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How to jump to backward found word when switched into reverse incremental search?
When I do I-search: or I-search-backward , it starts right away from the first word it find.
Original behavior:
word1 |[cursor]word1 ; cursor moves here
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How to bind C-h to delete-backward-char when doing isearch?
I use C-h as an alias for delete-backward-char everywhere.
But when I do isearch it exits the search instead of deleting the character before the cursor.
I tried binding C-h in isearch maps, but ...
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How to perform incremental search inside math environments in tex/latex documents
Is there a way to perform incremental search that filters out all non-math environments (i.e., only searches within $...$, $$...$$, and if possible other relevant \begin{..}..\end{..} environments)?
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How to get emacs to keep cursor in the middle of buffer during search?
(I am using Aquamacs 3.5 which is based on GNU Emacs 25.3.50.1, in case this matters.)
While searching (isearch-forward) in a buffer it often happens that I need to see some lines before/after the ...
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Using `C-n` and `C-p` to iterate as cycle in `find-file` instead of up/down arrow keys
Following answer related to “Open Recent” in Emacs indicates that
After you press C-x C-f, press up and down to navigate the history of
opened files.
I have added following lines but they do not ...
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Is it possible to do word completion on `isearch` shell?
I want to apply word completion on isearch shell. When I press tab ^I shows up on the shell instead of completing the word and show up a window for suggestions.
=> Is it possible to complete a word ...
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How do I change the highlight color for selected texts on isearch?
When I search a text on isearch due highlighed color it is not readable.
Following line does not have any affect on the main selected word on the isearch:
(set-face-attribute 'lazy-highlight nil :...
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