From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject: Re: how can I isearch in selected region?
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:58:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86slsd4bu8.fsf@flame.pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1135766061.130132.72020@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
On 28 Dec 2005 02:34:21 -0800, "luciferleo" <LuciferLeo@gmail.com> wrote:
> given a region selected by C-@, you can kill-region by C-w, you can
> kill-ring-save by M-w
>
> given a buffer, you can isearch-forward by C-s, you can
> isearch-backward by C-r
>
> but how can you combine them? I cannot find a isearch-forward-region or
> something related.
You can narrow the buffer to the region with ``C-x n n'', perform
any operation that would affect the entire buffer only on the
narrowed region and widen the view of the current buffer to the
full buffer contents with ``C-x n w'' again.
I regularly use this to replace-string or replace-regexp in a
region and it works quite fine :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-28 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-28 10:34 how can I isearch in selected region? luciferleo
2005-12-28 12:58 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2005-12-29 9:57 ` luciferleo
2005-12-30 7:59 ` Mathias Dahl
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