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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Rafal Kurcz <pawlaczus@yahoo.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Search waht is under the cursor
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:49:40 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18093.46132.555841.206016@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185787814.921291.184680@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>

 > Hello
 > I would like to search the string that is currently under the cursor.
 > It should do something very similar to C-s and C-r but take the string
 > that is currently under the cursor as a default search pattern.

  The characters `C-w' and `C-y' can be used in incremental search to
  grab text from the buffer into the search string.  This makes it
  convenient to search for another occurrence of text at point.  `C-w'
  copies the character or word after point as part of the search string,
  advancing point over it.  (The decision, whether to copy a character or
  a word, is heuristic.)  Another `C-s' to repeat the search will then
  search for a string including that character or word.

Hopefully next time this will help you search the manual more effectively
first!

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-30  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30  9:30 Search waht is under the cursor Rafal Kurcz
2007-07-30  9:46 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-07-30  9:49 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2007-07-30 10:45 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2007-07-30 10:49 ` Peter Dyballa

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