Re: marking then searching
Allen Walker <awalker(a)mail.utexas.net> writes:
In GNU emacs, if I do a C-SPACE then C-s I get a mark from the
current point to the point of my first search result. In XEMACS, it
doesn't do that, the only highlighted region is the currently found
character, not all the characters before that (from where I
initiated my C-space).
First, isearch automatically leaves the mark at the beginning of the
search, so you don't need to press C-SPC in the first place.
Second, you can press M-C-z (activate-region) or C-x C-x
(exchange-point-and-mark), and the region spanned by the search will
become highlighted. Try it: `C-s [some text] C-x C-x'.
I suppose we could make C-SPC followed by C-s not turn off the
highlighting, but it would be misleading because usual editing
commands such as C-w have completely different meaning under isearch.