Re: Incremental search

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

I'll try this one too---thanks!

Robert Holmgren wrote:

> ** Reply to message from "Martin J. Osborne"  on
> Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:20:35 -0400
>
> > As far as I can see, Emacs' "incremental search" isn't emulated by any
> > command in xywwweb.u2. (Am I right?) Has anyone written an emulation
> > of it?
>
> People have come up with variants on "incremental searches" (though nobody, as
> far as I can recall, called them that) since the beginning of XyWrite --
> probably if you poked around in XySearch, you'd find four or five. Wasn't that
> WordStar's way of searching? I never much liked the idea (it always struck me
> as craven "isn't that cool" gimmickry), but I put a tiny one in my private part
> of U2 which cobbles together several public routines, to do a fairly meticulous
> job. To use it, formulate your search$ on the CMline, using any switches from
> the native SE[A]rch command -- /F /T whatever -- but call it "ISE..." instead
> of "SE...". When you've stated enough of the command (obviously, the command
> itself (ISE[A][/switches]), plus some part of the \search_string\) and are
> ready to execute it, hit the Helpkey, and keep adding chars until you get where
> you're going. Escape to stop adding chars (to quit). Handles 1-, 2-, and
> 3-byte chars in the search $tring. You can edit the string, backspace, etc.
> You could also make it pop a generic opening search template if you wanted,
> like a command and some delimiters, and position the cursor between the
> delimiters ready for more input; but I never bothered. What counts for me is
> proper handling of three-byters, like tildes and so forth.
>
> XPLeNCODE v2.0
> b-gin [UNTITLED]
> {{;5ise*}} Incremental SEarch (calls SE*) RJH 12/13/98[cr|lf
> ]{002}{<}SX27,{<}CP{>}{>}{<}SV28,{027}X{>}{<}LBA{>}{<}SX50,{<
> }IS27{>}{>}[JM_]2.ReJuMP[Q2_][JM_]2.cmline[Q2_]{<}SV50,{>}{<}
> XS616,28,01,,50{>}[JM_]2.PrsSG50[Q2_]{<}PREnter SEarch$... [E
> scape quits]{>}{<}SX01,{<}RC{>}{>}{<}SX02,{<}VA$KC{>}{>}{<}IF
> {<}PV02{>}>1{>}[GH_]{<}PV01{>}{<}GLA{>}{<}EI{>}{<}PRDone{>}{0
> 02}[cr|lf]
> -nd
> XPLeNCODE
>
> Examples (absolutely identical to normal SE[A]rch command):
>
> ise |hel|
> isea/f |Ther|
> isea/t Marti
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
> -----------------------------

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