Re: Searching the uncommented text

[Pascal Bourguignon]

"Seung H. Choi" <schoi21c+help-gnu-emacs@gmail.com> writes:
> How do I search the text that are not commented? If there is such a
> feature, it would really help in lots of cases.

M-x isearch-forward-regexp RET ^[^;]*text.* RET

That is, in lisp sources where the comments start with ';'.


For C++, you could do:

M-x isearch-forward-regexp RET ^\(/[^/]\|[^/]\)*text.* RET



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