How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer

How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer

[Anand Dhanakshirur]

Hi,
I am using emacs 22.2.1.
Kindly tell me How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer.
for ex: i want to know(highlight) the all the text which are als*.
etc.
rgds,
anand

Re: How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer

[Andy Stewart]

Anand Dhanakshirur <asd@cdotb.ernet.in> writes:

> Hi,
> I am using emacs 22.2.1.
> Kindly tell me How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer.
> for ex: i want to know(highlight) the all the text which are als*.
> etc.
> rgds,
> anand
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/color-moccur.el
for search regxp in buffer.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/moccur-edit.el
for edit search string.

  -- Andy

Re: How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Anand Dhanakshirur <asd@cdotb.ernet.in> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using emacs 22.2.1.
> Kindly tell me How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer.
> for ex: i want to know(highlight) the all the text which are als*.

Hi anand,

Look in the menus:

   Edit - Search

Re: How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer

[Bastien]

Anand Dhanakshirur <asd@cdotb.ernet.in> writes:

> Kindly tell me How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer.
> for ex: i want to know(highlight) the all the text which are als*.

C-u C-s a l s *

-- 
 Bastien

Re: How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer

[mtfardy]

Anand Dhanakshirur schrieb:
> Hi,
> I am using emacs 22.2.1.
> Kindly tell me How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer.
> for ex: i want to know(highlight) the all the text which are als*.

Search or highlight? For highlighting a regexp you can use
highlight-regexp. For search: C-M-s

regards
Marc

Re: How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer

[Marc Tfardy]

mtfardy schrieb:
> Anand Dhanakshirur schrieb:
>> Hi,
>> I am using emacs 22.2.1.
>> Kindly tell me How to do regular expression seach in emacs buffer.
>> for ex: i want to know(highlight) the all the text which are als*.
> 
> Search or highlight? For highlighting a regexp you can use
> highlight-regexp. For search: C-M-s

C-M-s do highlighting too, but not permanent.

Marc