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Re: option to let isearch select the search target (in transient mark m


From: Davis Herring
Subject: Re: option to let isearch select the search target (in transient mark mode)
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:31:38 -0700 (PDT)
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>> terminate the search with this option.  Thinking about this, I realize
>> that I would get almost all the utility of this idea with just one
>> command
>> added to isearch which meant "exit and move point to start of match",
>
> Isn't that what isearch does already? When exiting a successful
> isearch with RET it says in the echo area:
>
>   Mark saved where search started
>
> And I can use this to delete the region or kill it or whatever.

Where search started is not where the -match- started, but rather where
point was when you started isearch altogether.

Davis

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