From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Leh CHAO'" <lehchao@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: does emacs support incremental searching for partial matches?
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:21:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1F683B01BB541FF8EC91559861972A6@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinb+4vgHG3=_nUQeRSAebJPz7QengweS7__Oh_A@mail.gmail.com>
> I'm wondering if emacs has built-in support for incremental searching
> for partial matches, such as searching for 'memcache' matches
> 'memorycache'. It would be really helpful to me when I'm working on
> Visual C++ code because the programmers tend to use long variable
> names.
You can use regexp search: `C-M-s mem.*cache'.
See `C-h r g regexp search RET'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-22 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-21 10:28 does emacs support incremental searching for partial matches? Leh CHAO
2011-02-22 14:21 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-02-22 19:33 ` Leh CHAO
2011-02-22 20:42 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2.1298403193.16069.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 21:49 ` Tim X
2011-02-23 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-24 5:59 ` Le Wang
2011-02-24 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1298558638.12984.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-26 3:22 ` jpkotta
[not found] <mailman.10.1298381786.4429.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 21:34 ` Tim X
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