From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: incremental search Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:06:25 -0400 Organization: Symantec Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161758502 23784 80.91.229.2 (25 Oct 2006 06:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:41:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 25 08:41:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GccS8-0000mN-KM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GccS8-0001kb-4w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:41:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:06:25 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.108.171 Original-X-Trace: sv3-nzFX3L7LRQ4ESyyRPLRp7cM2L9frikdUZUzXOVGtGrmpOsjGgWQefWyDkvH7MqZMwfkx7vSrO2Gv5bF!cd8NHohqAvJ+71n+mNPIe0sr0DMYFnm5UroC2WFoJyhupYbei9TGjj2FOc53UDB6NjdkJlGnxguK!E+vJVvE1q8V0vSzcmwphn8PHO9DxPh7gew== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142640 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38260 Archived-At: In article , Gary Wessle 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 *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***