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

[Jambunathan K]

Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

If you are using Emacs from bzr, configure the variable below to run
occur for symbol at point.

        C-h v occur-read-regexp-defaults-function


Then jump around with

M-s o
M-g M-n
M-g M-n
M-g M-p

or look at occur before and jump directly to the needed location.

>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> -Steven