From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Incremental Search with marked text Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:42:53 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84adj7mjgy.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039965763 9383 80.91.224.249 (15 Dec 2002 15:22:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:22:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18NaWh-0001xf-00 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 16:17:55 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org (monty-python.gnu.org [199.232.76.173]) by hermes.netfonds.no (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gBFEjfr4026148 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:45:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Na1T-0000jf-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:45:39 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!teaser.fr!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p50876b28.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50876b28.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.107.40) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1039963374 38252538 80.135.107.40 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.93 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RKX2kCd/ooobJRvSEC0PPImMkuA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108146 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4675 "Andrew C. Suttles" writes: > If I mark a word by double clicking (yuck) the mouse, I can do an > incremental search for the word by using c-s m-y. This 'yanks' the marked > word into the minibuffer as the target for the isearch. However, when I > use m-@ to "mark word" and then try the same thing (c-s m-y) I get the > previously marked word and not the current one. You need to do M-w after marking the word with the keyboard. The node in the info file is called "The Mark and the Region", I think. After C-h i d m Emacs RET you can type i to search in the index, then enter "region". -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)