Re: VHDL and Emacs (My experience)

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Andy wrote:
> On May 14, 12:07 pm, Mike Treseler <mike_trese...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Andy wrote:
>>>  I had to set another couple of
>>> options to get it to treat the selected text as "pending delete" too.
>> I do that with query-replace.
>>
>>> I just wish there was a handy way to select a word or phrase in the
>>> code and then search for other occurrences of it, with minimal
>>> additional typing. There probably is, but I just don't know it yet!
>> Like most tasks, it's easy once you know how to do it :)
>>
>> C-s
>>
>> Then type enough letters to see the instances light up.
>>
>> C-s again to jump to the next instance, etc.
>>
>>      -- Mike Treseler
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Thanks, but I already know how to use C-s (that's what I end up
> using). Unfortunately, it still requires me to type the word (or
> enough of it to be sufficiently unique) to start the search. I was
> looking for something that allows me to select an existing word,
> usually a port or signal/variable name (with mouse or keyboard), and
> search for other occurrences of that word. Typing the entire word gets
> tedious when using long names with specific suffixes, which require
> that virtually the entire name be re-typed. When in I-search (C-s), a
> C-v (paste) does not act like I typed it, but actually inserts the
> copy buffer at the cursor location. It's like the C-v operation
> overrides the fact that one is already in I-search mode.


You can use M-y to yank (ie paste) text into the C-s search string.