Re: Is there an easier way to jump to the same word?

["Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com>]

On 2013-04-11, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On 2013-04-11, Steven Degutis wrote:
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>> Often times I find that I want to jump to another occurrence of the
>> word-under-point, almost always variables or functions. I end up going to
>> the beginning of the word with M-b, doing isearch-forward with C-s, adding
>> all the words until the full word is the search term with C-w a bunch of
>> times, and finally C-s to jump around to other instances of it.
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this?
>
>    This is what I use:
>
> (defun current-word-search ()
>     "search forward for word under cursor"
>     (interactive)
>     (word-search-forward (current-word)))

  And to search backwards:

(defun current-word-reverse-search ()
    "search backwards for word under cursor"
    (interactive)
    (word-search-backward (current-word)))

  And, of course, they are bound to keys:

(global-set-key (kbd "s-s") 'current-word-search)
(global-set-key (kbd "s-r") 'current-word-reverse-search)


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