Re: Searching the uncommented text

[Seung H. Choi]

Thanks, but is there a way to set a hot-key for this functionality?
For general search, ctrl+S will move the cursor to the next matching text.
If I can set up a hot key, then I would be able to search through the
code that are not comments.

-Seung

On 12/18/05, Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> "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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