From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: incremental search Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:25:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ods07tes.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164390770 26776 80.91.229.2 (24 Nov 2006 17:52:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 24 18:52:45 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 1GnfE0-0000xx-Nv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:52:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnfE0-0008WB-Dc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:52:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:25:17 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MJ0v8gy5znrp2Ti/EkDh0cT/qzM= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.26.177 Original-X-Trace: sv3-jUA4cgSBjLr0A267XLefOO2pfiowU63zn0bRf4K4VPG+h8AJpHKuh5Yeags1bSIcz6c9EvHseXRlVjj!1+m1L5LqjdargOO3tn0/KX6NBGf0vuqGz0g9id0pB4MSZMxfvPGhC1ZmoMub4Ow+0raXVJWuLa3D!0bN09IH1nzX18u0gEQ== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca 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:143307 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:38924 Archived-At: > I usually switch to regexp incremental search when this happens. > C-s \ Interestingly enough, isearch.el does have support for word search (via the isearch-word variable), but I don't see any command that makes it available to the user. The code below allows you to toggle this state with M-w while in isearch. (defun isearch-toggle-word () "Toggle word searching on or off." ;; The status stack is left unchanged. (interactive) (setq isearch-word (not isearch-word)) (if isearch-word (setq isearch-regexp nil)) (setq isearch-success t isearch-adjusted t) (isearch-update)) (define-key isearch-mode-map "\M-w" 'isearch-toggle-word) -- Stefan