From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Permanently Changing Search Option Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:55:16 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150846823 17599 80.91.229.2 (20 Jun 2006 23:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 21 01:40:22 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 1FsppW-0008Ec-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:40:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FsppV-0007NG-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:40:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!129.16.222.141.MISMATCH!gide.ita.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: linus003.dd.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: gide.ita.chalmers.se 1150844116 14477 129.16.117.203 (20 Jun 2006 22:55:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@gide.ita.chalmers.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nCJY65XFItLzFQdGhFJfDRrpjdc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139935 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35559 Archived-At: Bill writes: > I'm sure there must be a way to permanently change the Emacs's > search options so that C-s always searches word by word and not one > letter at a time, as I type. They key word here is permanently. I > know it can be done using C-s Enter, but I'd like Emacs to do this > using C-s instead. Forward and backward word searches are implemented by the commands `word-search-forward' and `word-search-backward'. These commands may be bound to keys in the usual manner. They are available via the incremental search commands both for historical reasons and to avoid the need to find separate key sequences for them. (info "(emacs)Word Search") -- Johan Bockgård