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Re: Remembering a regexp across searches
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Remembering a regexp across searches |
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Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:25:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Preminger <michaelp@hio.no> writes:
> Maybe something I would expect to find in the FAQ, but to no avail:
>
> I need to do repeating incremental searches of regular expression.
>
> when I find what I was looking for - I need to do some changes
> (manually), and then search for the next occurrence corresponding to
> the same regexp.
>
> Sometimes the regexps are complicated, and retyping them in the
> Iserach-buffer is tedious.
>
> How do I avoid this re-typing? Is there a way to make emacs "remember"
> a regexp and re-use it in a handy way?
Just type another C-s and you are set.
So if you did your first search with
C-u C-s something
then
C-u C-s C-s
will repeat the search.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum