Re: [vile] searching for register contents

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:14:35PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 09:14:31PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 05:01:34PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 08:40:21PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:47:57PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > > > > If I yank a word (or words) into a register is there a way to search
> > > > > the current buffer for that registers contents?
> > > > 
> > > > hmm.  That puts the content into the unnamed buffer as well as 
> > > > kill-buffer-1.
> > > > The $kill variable gets part of that (I recall as the first chunk, which
> > > > should be enough for word/words), so you could assign that to $search,
> > > > and use it - provided there are no metacharacters.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > So how do I set $search to $kill?
> > > 
> > > The following sequence
> > > 
> > > set-variable $search $kill
> > 
> > This seems to work as I would expect (putting it in a file and source'ing 
> > it):
> > 
> > setv $search=$kill
> > show-register
> > show-variables
> > 
> > ...which should work in a macro.  If using the : prompt, then there is no 
> > substitution
> > performed.
> >  
> > > assigned the literal string $kill to search and not the content of
> > > the variable. Is this something I need to use a procedure along with
> > > the &cat command in order to achieve?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
> > http://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://invisible-island.net
> 
> Ok, looks like I should have tried writing that to a file before mailing
> the list. This is close to what I'm after, but I need to shift between
> several searches. What I want is to load registers a, b and c with 3
> different strings and then be able to switch between searches.
> 
> Uh... turns out all I needed was a procedure to load $search from the
> named register:
> 
> store-procedure Find-Register string='Register'
>     setv $search &register $1
> ~endm
> 
> Now what would icing on the cake would be a function that could either
> escape the meta-characters in the search string or if there existed

right - that was what I was suggesting.

> something like literal-search-forward that would treat the search
> pattern as a string instead of a regexp.
> 
> But I'm good for now :)
> 
> Very handy... Thanks for the tips Thomas.

no problem (report bugs).  I have changes for 9.8k, but kind of wanted
to investigate the open bug on savannah first...

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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