Re: Occur should use the region as input if it's active

[Tak Kunihiro]

I think that is a good idea and should be build in with following two
lines. With this, isearch and occur get closer.

  (isearch-mode t)
  (isearch-update-ring (setq isearch-string (buffer-substring-no-properties
                   (region-beginning) (region-end))))


> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:55:48 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Tom <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Occur should use the region as input if it's active
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> If often happens to me that I'm perusing a buffer and I want to 
> search for some word or phrase in it. To do this I simply select the 
> text and use this code to instantly get occur matches of it:
> 
>     (defun my-occur ()
>       (interactive)
>       (if (use-region-p)
>           (occur (buffer-substring-no-properties
>                   (region-beginning) (region-end)))
>         (call-interactively 'occur)))
> 
> Shouldn't the builtin occur do this? It's quite convenient and
> efficient and in my experience most of the occur searches are
> of these kind (searching for something I see) and it's less
> often that I actualy need to type in the search term.