Re: are there some ways to get things like isearch-{start,end}-position?

[Madsen Zhang <md11235@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fantastic solution:).

Bart, thank you very much!!



On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Sep 24,  2:26pm, md 1983 wrote:
> }
> } I want to upon exiting isearch mode always place the cursor in ZLE at
> } the position as specified by the variable "isearch_start" in zsh's
> } source code, no matter it's a forward or backward search.
>
> You should be able to use the special zle-isearch-exit widget and the
> $LASTSEARCH variable to find the point in the buffer that was matched
> by the search.  Here's a crude effort:
>
> zle-isearch-exit() {
>  local match mbegin mend
>  setopt extendedglob
>  [[ -n $LASTSEARCH ]] || return 0
>  : ${BUFFER#(#b)(*)$LASTSEARCH}
>  CURSOR=$mend[1]
>  return 0
> }
> zle -N zle-isearch-exit
>
> I agree that it would be nice to pass the search region at least to
> zle-isearch-exit and zle-isearch-update if not to make them generally
> available.
>