From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: incremental search Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:57:53 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <874ptpsi1a.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <87ods07tes.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161976140 18482 80.91.229.2 (27 Oct 2006 19:09:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 27 21:08:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdWuM-00058C-V2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:58:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdWuM-0005Gz-I1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdWu9-0005Ek-3k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GdWu4-00054i-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GdWu4-00054N-3D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.186] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GdWu3-0002lV-SS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.67.15] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1GdWu22gUG-00070c; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:58:02 +0200 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 740E875676; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:57:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Malte Spiess In-Reply-To: <87ods07tes.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> (Malte Spiess's message of "Wed\, 25 Oct 2006 09\:20\:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 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:38336 Archived-At: Malte Spiess writes: > Barry Margolin writes: > >> In article , >> Gary Wessle wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> C-s turns on incremental search but it is not doing what I am >>> expecting which is; >>> when I want to find "man" it high finds "woman", how can I limit it to >>> the word "man", do I need to regex incremental search? >> >> If you don't mind a non-interactive search, you can use M-x=20 >> word-search-forward. This is really, really beautiful, thanks. > You can also type C-s RET C-w for word-search. But this somehow only > finds one occurance. Yes, strange. Fortunately with the key combo C-s M-e M-w WORD C-s the i-search for words works in the expected repetitive way (the hint comes from Johan Bockg=C3=A5rd, see the link below in case you haven't read his message). Juri Linkov discovered "half-incremental word search". See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-02/msg01119.html --=20 Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany