Go to next match after "ending" search

[ghosty141]

Hi,
I'm currently checking out ctrlf, fantastic package, but I'm missing one "key" functionality. I come from vim and I really like the way when searching with "/" you press enter, navigate around and edit some text, and then you can press "n" to go to the next occurence.

How do I replicate this behavior with ctrlf? In isearch I can do this via isearch-repeat-forward. I kinda need ctrlf-repeat-forward.

Thanks for the help in advance :)

[raxod502]

The default binding for this would be C-s C-s. I suppose you want something shorter?

[ghosty141]

Ah yes this comes close! isearch keeps the highlighting, that's quite neat, maybe there is a way to use the search term as input for the corresponding highlight-<...> function or ctrlf could implement similar behavior to isearch in that regard.

For now, how would I bind C-s C-s though? As "macro" ?

[raxod502]

Sure, those things all seem like reasonable possibilities, however I'm not sure offhand what the best approach would be.

I don't think it would be possible to bind C-s C-s as a single command, directly, since each of the C-s instances are actually different commands.

I think what we'd probably want to do is copy this function but have it use the last search query rather than using symbol at point:

ctrlf/ctrlf.el

Lines 1414 to 1431 in 63d27a0

	(defun ctrlf-forward-symbol-at-point ()
	"Search forward for symbol at point.
	If already in a search, replace the current input and change to a
	symbol search, otherwise start the search. If no symbol is found,
	display an error message and do not search."
	(interactive)
	(let ((initial-contents nil)
	(position nil)
	(skip-search nil))
	(with-current-buffer (window-buffer (minibuffer-selected-window))
	(setq position (car (find-tag-default-bounds)))
	(setq initial-contents (thing-at-point 'symbol t))
	(unless initial-contents
	(setq skip-search t)
	(let ((ctrlf--message-persist-p t))
	(ctrlf--message "No symbol at point"))))
	(unless skip-search
	(ctrlf-forward 'symbol nil initial-contents position))))

[ghosty141]

I think what we'd probably want to do is copy this function but have it use the last search query rather than using symbol at point:

I played around with this a little bit, what we basically need is use (car ctrlf-search-history) + the position of the next result if there is one. I didn't find a function that returns the position of the next match though, if that would exist this would be possible right?

[raxod502]

Why do you need the position of the next match, rather than simply moving to it by invoking ctrlf-forward?