RE: VHDL and Emacs (My experience)

[Drew Adams]

> I just wish there was a handy way to select a word or phrase in the
> code and then search for other occurrences of it, with minimal
> additional typing. There probably is, but I just don't know it yet!

You were writing about XEmacs, which I'm not very familiar with. But in GNU
Emacs, at least as far back as version 20, you can use `M-y' during
incremental search to search for the text in the region. So, just "select a
word or phrase in the code" in whatever way you like (e.g. mouse), and use
`M-y' during isearch to append that text to the search pattern.