Re: Key map translations

[Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>]

2011/4/13 Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>:
> On 4/12/2011 8:53 PM, Sean Sieger wrote:
>
>> Christoph, does C-s C-w already do something similar to what your custom
>> function does?
>
> I use C-s C-w alot, but my function works differently.
>
>    this-is-a-long-word
>         ^
> With cursor here, C-s C-w will yank
>
>    this-is-a-long-word
>         **
>
> in the search string.
>
> C-S-s, at the same position, would yank
>
>    this-is-a-long-word
>    *******************
>
> i.e. the entire word at point.
>
> Then I can press C-s like normal to move to the next occurrence of the word.
> I think this is very handy and usually saves me a lot of C-s C-w C-w C-w
> etc.
>

This is something I've been wanting for a long time but never really
realized it. Is there really nothing similar in isearch already? Maybe
we could add it?

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Deniz Dogan