From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Permanently Changing Search Option Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:43:44 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <20060620045801.GA15913@bill.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150829125 23025 80.91.229.2 (20 Jun 2006 18:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 20 20:45:21 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 1FslDq-00057x-2y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:45:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FslDp-0007Dt-Mc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FslDe-0007Di-R1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FslDd-0007DR-7a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FslDd-0007DO-1O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FslOC-0007Dw-Re for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FslDN-00051s-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:44:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:44:41 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:44:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <20060620045801.GA15913@bill.local> 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:35557 Archived-At: Bill wrote: > I'm sure there must be a way to permanently change the Emacs's search > options so that C-s always searches word by word and not one letter at > a time, as I type. They key word here is permanently. I know it can be > done using C-s Enter, but I'd like Emacs to do this using C-s instead. (setq isearch-word t) ; or is setq-default necessary? -- Kevin