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Please add a hook for `isearch-process-search-string'

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 6225 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6225: Please add a hook for `isearch-process-search-string'
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 02:17:09 +0200

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org> wrote:
>> There is AFAICS no way to currently trigger actions when isearch
>> search string changes.
>>
>> I think it would be useful to have a hook for this. Some things that
>> you could do would for example
>>
>> - Sync with external apps (I currently want to sync with display in Firefox).
>>
>> - Show matches in buffers displayed in other windows on the same frame
>> could sometimes be useful.
>>
>> Could we please add such a hook? I think the place to run it is in
>> `isearch-process-search-string'.
>
> I think this will help you:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/121172


Thanks, but I am not sure... ;-)

It mentions a hook named isearch-update-post-hook. I can't find any
such hook. Is it there? What does it do?

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