From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: does emacs support incremental searching for partial matches? Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:21:35 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298385268 5976 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2011 14:34:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:34:28 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Leh CHAO'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 22 15:34:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrtJf-000826-2l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:34:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35325 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrtJe-0007by-GH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:34:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45129 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrtFJ-0004ud-KB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:29:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Prt83-0003sr-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:22:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:57456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Prt83-0003sg-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:22:15 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p1MEM6ka016185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:22:09 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p1MAvNwa010090; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:22:04 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt001.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 1075664031298384498; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:21:38 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.61.196) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:21:37 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcvSluprloLGsr59RNChFYQp6LtZGAABDrlA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4D63C68C.0159:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.121 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:79321 Archived-At: > 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'.