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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: incremental search
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:06:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-E6A202.02062525102006@comcast.dca.giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m38xj5rmdd.fsf@localhost.localdomain

In article <m38xj5rmdd.fsf@localhost.localdomain>,
 Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> 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 
word-search-forward.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25  5:32 incremental search Gary Wessle
2006-10-25  6:06 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2006-10-25  7:20   ` Malte Spiess
2006-10-25  7:37     ` Barry Margolin
2006-11-23 19:25       ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-25 14:01     ` Johan Bockgård
2006-10-27 18:57     ` Dieter Wilhelm

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