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Re: Search for a word in Emacs as is done in gvim
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harven |
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Re: Search for a word in Emacs as is done in gvim |
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Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:17:19 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) |
rakeshg <rakeshbabugr@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
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> In gvim we have a feature where:
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> By having the cursor on a particular word, and pressing "*" key , we can
> search for the word in the files.
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> In emacs we have first copy the word and then do Ctl-S and then paste it.
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> Is there a way in emacs to search for a word like we do in gvim(VI)
With the point at the beginning of the word, type: C-s C-w C-s C-s ...
You can swallow several words if you want : C-s C-w C-w C-w C-s C-s ...
or even everything until the end of line: C-s C-y
see the following for a list of options after the first C-s
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IncrementalSearch