Re: [Orgmode] possible bug in org-goto-local-search-headings

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Lee,

I do not understand.

Why would you call this function?  It is being called by the
internals of isearch, and when that happens, isearch.el is obviously  
loaded.

What am I missing here?

- Carsten

On Nov 12, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Lee Hinman wrote:

> I noticed some interesting behavior with the
> org-goto-local-search-headings function in Emacs 23.1.1.
>
> If you call the function before doing an incremental search, searching
> forward fails.  If you call it after doing an incremental search the
> function will search forward.  A quick look at the code showed that it
> only does a forward search if isearch-forward is defined.  This is  
> both
> a variable and a function in isearch.el, and the variable
> isearch-forward is set to nil until you do a search.
>
> The following patch against the current orgmode removes the dependency
> on isearch-forward and will now search forward first, if it doesn't  
> find
> anything will search backward from the original point.  I *think* this
> is the behavior that was intended.
>
>
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index dd34816..1e9aad3 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -5801,8 +5801,7 @@ or nil."
> (defun org-goto-local-search-headings (string bound noerror)
>   "Search and make sure that any matches are in headlines."
>   (catch 'return
> -    (while (if isearch-forward
> -               (search-forward string bound noerror)
> +    (while (or (search-forward string bound t)
>              (search-backward string bound noerror))
>       (when (let ((context (mapcar 'car (save-match-data (org- 
> context)))))
>               (and (member :headline context)
>
>
> --
> Lee Hinman
>
>
>
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- Carsten