Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search

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Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 7, 3:25 am, Jonathan Groll <li...@groll.co.za> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:33:51AM +0200, Deniz Dogan wrote:
>> >2010/7/7 Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> >>> The idea though is to move point to the text you are interested
>> >>> in. C-g leaves you back where you started from.
>>
>> >> If you press RET doesn't it leave you where you want exiting the search?
>>
>> >That's right, Emacs even echoes "Mark saved where search started" when
>> >you use RET.
>>
>> Thanks, this is something that I didn't realised until now, and have
>> been using emacs for a couple of years... and it is right there in the
>> manual under "basics of incremental search" too.
>
> same here. I started to use emacs daily since 1998, and i didn't
> realize that Enter will exit the search and leave the cursor at the
> current location untill 2007 or so. I've always just used left/right
> arrow. (and a year or two later, i also found out that it is right in
> the manual. These happened only when i started to get more involved in
> writing a emacs tutorial)
>
> this situation of us using emacs for 5 or 10 years and often found
> something basics we don't know about. I think that means there's
> something wrong with the manual.

There's nothing wrong with the manual.
That makes no sense, you just said the information is in the manual.

Experienced Emacs users know that learning Emacs is an ongoing process.