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From: Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: repeating a search a certain number of times
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:41:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A11864.7030905@taydin.org> (raw)

Hello,

I have been looking for a way to repeat a search a certain number of 
times, and from the documentation i have found the search-forward 
function to do that:

(search-forward "something" nil nil 5)

But unfortunately this isn't bound to a key. The docstring says it is 
bound to <find>, but I don't know what that means. It isn't a lisp 
function. I thought maybe it is a menu item, but can't see that in the 
menu either.

So my question is, how can I bind this to a key so that when I press it, 
it asks me for the string, then the repetition count and then goes ahead 
and finds it?

-- 
Timur



             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-21 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-21 17:41 Timur Aydin [this message]
2016-01-21 22:14 ` repeating a search a certain number of times Marcin Borkowski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-01-17 20:07 Mac: Don't quit Emacs when window is closed Luis Gerhorst
2016-01-17 22:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2484.1453090928.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-18 17:05     ` Barry Margolin
2016-01-21 17:36       ` repeating a search a certain number of times Timur Aydin
2016-01-21 18:10         ` Drew Adams

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