Re: Search for text

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

john maclean wrote:
> - Can one search for text at the location of the point? If a point is
> within word "foo" I'd like to C-s <something> so that I dont have to
> enter that word when promted for a search term

`C-s C-w' if point is before "f", `M-b C-s C-w' if point is after "f".

> - I'd like to be able to search for say ^[a-g] with regular
> expressions. Can any one point me to the location of the info doc?

The "Regexp Search" and "Regexps" nodes are under the "Search" node.

> - Finally I'd like to have all matching terms stay highlighted a bit
> longer. C-s does highlight terms, but as soon as I C-v to look down
> the page it's gone.

,----[ C-h v lazy-highlight-cleanup RET ]
| lazy-highlight-cleanup is a variable defined in `isearch.el'.
| Its value is t
|
| Documentation:
| *Controls whether to remove extra highlighting after a search.
| If this is nil, extra highlighting can be "manually" removed with
| M-x lazy-highlight-cleanup.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| [back]
`----

-- 
Kevin