When I use vr/query-replace I would like the current replace candidate to always be centered on my screen. With the plain old query-replace I can get the desired behavior with following code:
(add-hook 'replace-update-post-hook #'recenter)
I could not find and similar hook for the visual-regexp package. I looked at the source code of the plain query-replace function and found that the replace-update-post-hook is called after perform-replace.
I then saw that vr/query-replace uses a similar function called vr--perform-query-replace, so I thought I could get the desired behavior with the following advice:
arstum
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1 year ago
When I use
vr/query-replaceI would like the current replace candidate to always be centered on my screen. With the plain oldquery-replaceI can get the desired behavior with following code:I could not find and similar hook for the visual-regexp package. I looked at the source code of the plain
query-replacefunction and found that thereplace-update-post-hookis called afterperform-replace.I then saw that
vr/query-replaceuses a similar function calledvr--perform-query-replace, so I thought I could get the desired behavior with the following advice:Unfortunately this advise has no effect.
How can I get similar behavior to
replace-update-post-hook?