Re: Is there an easier way to jump to the same word?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2013-04-11, Steven Degutis wrote:
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> Often times I find that I want to jump to another occurrence of the
> word-under-point, almost always variables or functions. I end up going to
> the beginning of the word with M-b, doing isearch-forward with C-s, adding
> all the words until the full word is the search term with C-w a bunch of
> times, and finally C-s to jump around to other instances of it.
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> Is there a better way to do this?

   This is what I use:

(defun current-word-search ()
    "search forward for word under cursor"
    (interactive)
    (word-search-forward (current-word)))


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