From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Stewart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:33:33 +0800 Message-ID: <87prghr6jm.fsf@debian.domain> References: <49BE46EE.1000104@cdotb.ernet.in> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237206964 17995 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2009 12:36:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:36:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 16 13:37:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LjC49-0003SU-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:37:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjC2n-0003fA-GK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:35:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjC2P-0003dS-TB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:35:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjC2K-0003bq-Jm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:35:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49939 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjC2K-0003bn-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:35:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58608 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjC2K-0006SC-5U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:35:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LjC2G-00020n-E5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:35:16 +0000 Original-Received: from 222.212.140.227 ([222.212.140.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:35:16 +0000 Original-Received: from lazycat.manatee by 222.212.140.227 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:35:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.212.140.227 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9r1lZXKT8YUdeX6+Hxnn2W7TFh0= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62973 Archived-At: Anand Dhanakshirur writes: > Hi, > I am using emacs 22.2.1. > Kindly tell me How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer. > for ex: i want to know(highlight) the all the text which are als*. > etc. > rgds, > anand http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/color-moccur.el for search regxp in buffer. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/moccur-edit.el for edit search string. -- Andy