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From: Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to search a whole word in emacs?
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:08:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejfhtwhj.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1193422116.266878.76080@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com


    I need to search  a whole word in a big file. For example, I need to
    search "Machine" but I don't need to know anything like
    "machine_state", "running_machine_state" etc. The search shall be case
    sensitive.

    I've tried C-s ret C-w Machine but it returns every word with
    "Machine" in it. I just need the exact word.

You want either 

        M-C-s \ b M a c h i n e \ b

or perhaps

        M-x word-search-forward RET Machine RET

-- 
Asking the Iraqi people to assume Saddam's debts
is rather like telling a man who has been shot in the head
that he has to pay for the bullet.
        -- James Surowiecki

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-26 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26 18:08 How to search a whole word in emacs? webinfinite
2007-10-26 21:08 ` Amy Templeton
2007-10-26 21:08 ` Eric Hanchrow [this message]
2007-10-26 21:54   ` David Hansen
2007-10-27 10:10     ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-10-26 22:05   ` Drew Adams
2007-10-27  9:45 ` Johan Bockgård
     [not found] ` <mailman.2615.1193432708.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-23  0:44   ` David Combs
2007-11-23  8:26     ` Xah Lee

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