From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Scott Frazer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Search for a word in Emacs as is done in gvim Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:16:59 -0400 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1239977818.702328@sj-nntpcache-2.cisco.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239980503 815 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2009 15:01:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:01:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 17:03:00 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 1Lupak-0001mF-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:02:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LupZL-0004uf-GD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:01:31 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe21.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: sj-nntpcache-2.cisco.com!unknown@scfrazer-wxp.cisco.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.2 (see http://www.nntpcache.com/) Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@cisco.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:16:59 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168538 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:63812 Archived-At: rakeshg wrote: > Hi, > > In gvim we have a feature where: > > By having the cursor on a particular word, and pressing "*" key , we can > search for the word in the files. > > In emacs we have first copy the word and then do Ctl-S and then paste it. > > Is there a way in emacs to search for a word like we do in gvim(VI) > > -Rakesh The EmacsWiki shows lots of ways ... of course I'm biased towards mine: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SearchAtPoint#toc8