Re: isearch region or thing at point.

[Ergus]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 03:15:21AM +0100, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> Ergus <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I am looking in the manual for two isearch functionalities that maybe
> > are already implemented, but I don't find them. Else maybe it is not
> > so complex to do in elisp (at least for my config) And you could suggest
> > a right way to implement it.
> >
> > 1) isearch-yank-thing-at-point, this should be similar to
> > isearch-yank-word, but if the cursor is in the middle of a word
> > it may insert the whole word not just the rest of the current word.
> >
> > (swiper provides this with M-n)
>
> The closest to this that I'm aware of is
> isearch-forward-symbol-at-point, bound to 'M-s .' by default.
>
> > 2) In "transient-mark-mode" if the region is active before C-s, the
> > initial input could be the text in the region. Is it there a way to
> > enable that behavior?
> >
> > An alternative for this is a command that yanks the region's text in the
> > minibuffer when isearch is active so we could bind it in the isearch-map
> > (for example to M-f).
> >
> > Are some of these already implemented?
>
> I'm not familiar with any built-in versions of the rest of the
> functionality you describe, but I'm no expert.  If it is indeed not
> currently present, I for one would welcome such additions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Basil
Hi Basil:

I just made a small change in isearch.el to enable region text auto
insertion in transient-mark-mode. (patch attached)

I did it as simple as I could. So please if you (or any anyone) could
give a look and correct/improve/expose corner cases, or suggest a better
implementation will be very nice.

I don't have corner cases right now, but I just started testing it.

So any correction/suggestion/recommendation is very appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Ergus

isearch-autoinsert.patch
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