From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lorenzo Isella Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Look for Text Skipping the Comments Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:14:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4AC23266.8000706@gmail.com> 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 1254246035 26427 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2009 17:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 29 19:40:28 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 1Msggb-0002r9-93 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:40:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57410 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Msgga-0007qx-Pi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsgJi-0003z7-Ru for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:16:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsgJe-0003vj-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:16:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48476 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsgJd-0003va-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f205.google.com ([209.85.220.205]:35844) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsfLX-0000nf-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:14:36 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm1 with SMTP id 1so4476026fxm.31 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:14:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=owMlwZTdl3pfDNvhlDAZAvS8kIYlVK2myjS/J71guis=; b=EbPlUHs4esGUL8F7cmuzvEq0Jzw6v6Rrbuun5LH/SOdAIp5bbl2SKBHY/tMj6ZAoWN ZCTjUg/hozm1g0VGLb+KdGGP8RHPrgprNYkCiypB3sN84q8Cbsqb3GWIU6CNG/f8lgmj lGW2yn1TlhUQ1o1Q6Hzljt3DbnKLDUhzb/piM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BUf+sfmUd5LmItCzOJVElm4FnBjIt3+1pGzeTCbJWNvcz1lrdy5KMUh5PyPapRqT7R DyQh1JNbewN8CmbCbrZZvS/uZo8jNE8MhO5ZSZXsQxiyU3176XAijS5Fa2zs2fPlsRlv wWX6lP06XEhJY0e0fw0sBNupSAERiNwWgAGeg= Original-Received: by 10.204.153.3 with SMTP id i3mr4322138bkw.26.1254240872963; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.1.63? (isiax3.isi.it [130.192.70.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 18sm1670966fks.10.2009.09.29.09.14.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:14:31 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:68536 Archived-At: Dear All, Suppose you are writing some code with a lot of documentation in the form of comments within the code itself. Now, if you use C-s to look for a word, emacs will also search though the comments. Is there a way to tell emacs that it should look for a word/expression/string skipping the comments? Many thanks Lorenzo