Re: Scrolling text erases the search highlight

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tuesday 13 July 2010 01:33 AM, Gabriel TEIXEIRA wrote:
> 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?

This is very strange, I tried it on emacs 24.0.50.1 when I read Qiang's 
response. And it worked like a charm. And now that you mention it, I 
tried it again on emacs 23.2.1. This time it behaves exactly as you 
describe!

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