Re: Isearch: add variable to control search match group

[Stefan Monnier]

> interactive one).  Imagine that my search module wants to search for

> \(^\|\s-+?\)(;;)\($\|\s-+?\)

> and I am actually only interested in the "(;;)" part since I also want
> to highlight it (with both, current match highlighting and all matches
> lazy highlighting).  Then, clearly, "\(^\|\s-+?\)" and "\($\|\s-+?\)"
> are just anchors.

How do you do that currently?  I'd expect that to do the above, you'd
set isearch-search-fun-function, and that function can take care of
shuffling the match-data so that the interesting part is
match-subgroup 0.


        Stefan