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Re: incremental search
From: |
Dieter Wilhelm |
Subject: |
Re: incremental search |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:57:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Malte Spiess <i1tnews@arcor.de> writes:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> In article <m38xj5rmdd.fsf@localhost.localdomain>,
>> Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> C-s turns on incremental search but it is not doing what I am
>>> expecting which is;
>>> when I want to find "man" it high finds "woman", how can I limit it to
>>> the word "man", do I need to regex incremental search?
>>
>> If you don't mind a non-interactive search, you can use M-x
>> word-search-forward.
This is really, really beautiful, thanks.
> You can also type C-s RET C-w for word-search. But this somehow only
> finds one occurance.
Yes, strange. Fortunately with the key combo C-s M-e M-w WORD C-s the
i-search for words works in the expected repetitive way (the hint
comes from Johan Bockgård, see the link below in case you haven't read
his message).
Juri Linkov discovered "half-incremental word search". See
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-02/msg01119.html
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany