Re: are there some ways to get things like isearch-{start,end}-position?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 24,  2:26pm, md 1983 wrote:
} 
} I want to upon exiting isearch mode always place the cursor in ZLE at
} the position as specified by the variable "isearch_start" in zsh's
} source code, no matter it's a forward or backward search.

You should be able to use the special zle-isearch-exit widget and the
$LASTSEARCH variable to find the point in the buffer that was matched
by the search.  Here's a crude effort:

zle-isearch-exit() {
  local match mbegin mend
  setopt extendedglob
  [[ -n $LASTSEARCH ]] || return 0
  : ${BUFFER#(#b)(*)$LASTSEARCH}
  CURSOR=$mend[1]
  return 0
}
zle -N zle-isearch-exit

I agree that it would be nice to pass the search region at least to
zle-isearch-exit and zle-isearch-update if not to make them generally
available.