From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Search for text Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:50:27 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <4170c1720607260915v6b73e5ddq5d2111c56a492db8@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154016665 31206 80.91.229.2 (27 Jul 2006 16:11:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:11:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 27 18:11:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G68Rk-0007Oo-Cv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:10:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G68Rj-0003hb-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G68RE-0003WW-40 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G68RC-0003Vo-AD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G68RC-0003Vi-3t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:10:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G68Sz-0007Ma-Cg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G68Qz-0007F0-Ns for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:10:01 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:10:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <4170c1720607260915v6b73e5ddq5d2111c56a492db8@mail.gmail.com> 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:36291 Archived-At: 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 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