From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anand Dhanakshirur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to highlight the matching reqular expression strings Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:59:27 +0530 Message-ID: <49BF2727.5080300@cdotb.ernet.in> 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 1237263636 10342 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 04:20:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:20:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs help Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 05:21:54 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 1LjQoM-0007XM-3T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:21:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35070 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjQmz-0000no-OR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjQmc-0000nB-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LjQmV-0000m8-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55799 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjQmV-0000m5-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:19:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ws9.cdotb.ernet.in ([202.41.72.121]:64396) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LjQmU-0000A5-Qk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:19:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ws9.cdotb.ernet.in (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cdotb.ernet.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07603A038 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:49:56 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from universe.cdotb.ernet.in (universe.cdotb.ernet.in [192.168.42.10]) by ws9.cdotb.ernet.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA326A01A for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:49:55 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from surya.cdotb.ernet.in (surya.cdotb.ernet.in.cdotb.ernet.in [192.168.16.119]) by universe.cdotb.ernet.in (8.12.2+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id n2H4Jrv3002971 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:49:55 +0530 (IST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: IMSS-7.0.0.7138-5.6.0.1016-16524.004 X-TM-AS-Result: No--7.116-5.0-31-1 X-imss-scan-details: No--7.116-5.0-31-1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:62982 Archived-At: Hi Bastien, Thanks, It worked for regexp like als.bd(any character). It highlighted the matching strings. But it did not work for als*bd(mutliple characters). It did not highlight the matching strings. How to do this? Do Bastien wrote: > Anand Dhanakshirur writes: > > >> Kindly tell me How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer. >> for ex: i want to know(highlight) the all the text which are als*. >> > > C-u C-s a l s * > >