Angus Leeming wrote:
>> Is is possible to search for a text pattern only in a particular
>> (Scrap) paragraph type? - or to find if a search has succeded?
>
> No. Search for the pattern and then use "server-get-layout".
To answer the second part of the question, "or to find if a search has
succeded?", I see that "word-find-forward:<text pattern>" does not
result in any message being passed back to the out pipe. However, the
cursor is moved and the word is highlighted.
It appears that there is no way currently to pass the selected text
back to the out pipe, but "server-set-xy:<x> <y>" and "server-get-xy"
appear to be your friends here. Some convoluted nastiness such as:
server-get-xy
INFO:monitor:server-get-xy:223 766
word-find-forward:depending
To ascertain whether the word was found or not:
server-get-xy
INFO:monitor:server-get-xy:104 9212
If the word did not exist, then this will be the end of the document:
buffer-end
server-get-xy
INFO:monitor:server-get-xy:454 9452
If the cursor is at the end of document then
The search failed.
Return to the place from which the search was initiated:
server-set-xy:223 766
else
The search succeeded.
Return the cursor to the word:
server-set-xy:104 9212
HTH,
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Angus
