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Re: Increment Search in a Certain Region?


From: Eric Hanchrow
Subject: Re: Increment Search in a Certain Region?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:25:38 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

    Drew> You can narrow the buffer to the region: `C-x n n', then
    Drew> search: `C-s'.  When you are done, you can widen the buffer:
    Drew> `C-x n w'.

    Drew> Otherwise, I don't think it's possible to tell `C-s' to
    Drew> limit itself to the region.

Au contraire!  Quoth (info "(emacs)Replace"):

    The replace commands normally operate on the text from point to
    the end of the buffer; however, in Transient Mark mode (*note
    Transient Mark::), when the mark is active, they operate on the
    region.
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