minibuf-isearch

Download (Version 1.7.1, 04 Jun 2007)

Commentary

This package enables incremental-searching on minibuffer history. This works on Emacs 20 / 21 / Meadow.

Put this code into your .emacs:
(require 'minibuf-isearch)
Then type C-r in minibuffer and you'll be happy. (yes, I suppose!)

Key bindings

C-r in the minibuffer starts minibuf-isearch-mode minor mode. In this mode, you can type:

Non-control characters

to incremental-search. The matched part is highlighted.

C-r

to search backward the word you typed.

C-s

to search forward.

C-h, DEL, BS

to delete the last type and search again.

C-g

to abort isearching. The initial content of the minibuffer is restored.

C-m, C-j, RET, etc.

to exit this minor mode.

History, License, etc.

See the commented-out field in the source file.

Media appearance

• Satoru Takabayashi. Lazy programming 3. History mania. Unix Magazine. Mar 2002. (in Japanese)

Acknowledgements

• This package was born at ELF mailing list. Thanks for many useful suggestions.
• Almost all of the useful features of this package are made by "the grand elisper" Hideyuki SHIRAI-san. See the history section in the source file for further details.

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