Re: move to fail position in Isearch edit

[Mathias Dahl]

It sounds very useful. I know I would like it since I do these kinds
of errors myself.

2008/11/11, Drew Adams <address@hidden>:
> Any interest in this? I bind it to `M-e' in `minibuffer-local-isearch-map',
> so
> `M-e M-e' puts the cursor at the match failure position.
>
> If you type a search string quickly and mistype a char or two, this lets you
> correct the typo without discarding and retyping the rest of the search
> string:
> `M-e M-e <corrections> C-s'.
>
> (defun isearch-goto-success-end ()
>     "Go to end of search string text that matches."
>     (interactive)
>     (goto-char (point-max))
>     (let ((cmds  isearch-cmds)
>           succ-msg)
>       (when (or (not isearch-success) isearch-error)
>         (while (or (not (isearch-success-state (car cmds)))
>                    (isearch-error-state (car cmds)))
>           (pop cmds))
>         (setq succ-msg  (and cmds (isearch-message-state (car cmds))))
>         (backward-char (- (length isearch-string) (length succ-msg))))))
>
> (define-key minibuffer-local-isearch-map
>             "\M-e" 'isearchp-goto-success-end)
>
>
>
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