From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>,
Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Calling C-r with Prefix Argument
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:34:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf7f7051-14b0-4c7f-a9f9-8915c13af430@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-b6ff2865-e958-4327-8007-aad4ea426998-1602700268753@3c-app-mailcom-bs02>
> Have been reading the output of describe-key for C-r (isearch-
> backward)
> that does an incremental search backward.
> It states that with a prefix argument, it does a regular expression
> search instead.
>
> Tried to see the documentation for Prefix Argument but has not
> helped
> me for the command C-r.
>
> How does a Prefix Argument work with C-r and what happens?
+1 for starting to read the documentation.
`C-u C-r' does a regexp incremental search backward.
(`C-M-r' does the same thing.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-14 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-14 18:31 Calling C-r with Prefix Argument Christopher Dimech
2020-10-14 18:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-10-14 21:36 ` Daniel Martín
2020-10-14 21:41 ` Christopher Dimech
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