From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Groll Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:25:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20100707102505.GB18906@groll.co.za> References: <20100707064305.GF31621@groll.co.za> <20100707080139.GA18906@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278498425 20194 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2010 10:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:27:05 +0000 (UTC) To: Deniz Dogan , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 07 12:27:02 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWRq9-0003fW-Mr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:26:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWRq6-0004Ts-2M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:26:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59159 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWRph-0004Tl-KO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWRpg-00050O-7X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.groll.co.za ([166.84.7.40]:47842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWRpg-00050I-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: by mail.groll.co.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 020265FE15; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:25:05 +0200 (SAST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (Linux mail 2.6.28-xen3-U-64 x86_64) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:74122 Archived-At: On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:33:51AM +0200, Deniz Dogan wrote: >2010/7/7 Andrea Crotti : >> >>> >>> The idea though is to move point to the text you are interested >>> in. C-g leaves you back where you started from. >>> >> >> If you press RET doesn't it leave you where you want exiting the search? >> > >That's right, Emacs even echoes "Mark saved where search started" when >you use RET. > Thanks, this is something that I didn't realised until now, and have been using emacs for a couple of years... and it is right there in the manual under "basics of incremental search" too. Regards, Jonathan