From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Burkhard Schultheis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Problem with word search Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:25:07 +0200 Organization: albasani.net Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333006217 22111 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2012 07:30:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:30:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 29 09:30:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SD9oF-0000hD-RW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:30:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52669 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SD9oE-0000uk-Ng for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:30:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net dg5dtQ3Ura+LNoVacFryuoi9YhXZHUBExgukQ/4b4kYzdJC55bgZRK29FieUPPontbmEAivDDOgPvkB50uhuiTbuGgOetVBPKRnRoxSvB+ns76WcW+zdbUz2mIce0KIR Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:25:15 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="aFu85VJ0cAdKFWBh6CtbWZk4ImV6t1oIe/iz/qbi4B3rhPi4tt92YOVa9uXYtzXmv1R3H6VYssfkEAChk6MrpvYAK8eJRvnVc0nZmIhPddhPHylNRGYg+nusBJ5fFP6l"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:VgNIHe2jKaHsTOY7sGkcVAg1h6A= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:191789 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84201 Archived-At: I searched in Google groups in this group for my problem and found an old discussion from 2007 for my problem, but it does not answer my question because the discussion was inconsistent: Someone stated that "word-search-forward machine" does _not_ find "running_machine_state". But another one stated it would (and should) find the longer "word". And this is the case with my emacs 21.3.1 (it's a development server where I cannot install the newest version). How can I change this behavior? Or is it OK in Version 21? Or how should I search for a word? I've tried the regular expression \bmachine\b and it does find "running_machine_state" too! I think, this is the problem, but why? And how can I change it? Thanks in advance! Regards Burkhard