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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Searching for word under cursor
Date: 26 Aug 2009 06:28:54 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnh99lf3.fjr.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5369.1251240801.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Bernardo wrote:
>
>> Is there a command to invoke a search for the word currently under the
>> cursor?
>> 
>> It'll be helpful in finding other instances of a token I am currently at.
>
> C-s C-w C-s

this actually yanks text from the cursor position to the first non-word
character, so if you want to search the entire word you're on, you have to put
the cursor on the first character.

btw: C-s C-h brings up a help function for incremental search.


-- 
Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
EN:SiS(9)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25 20:09 Searching for word under cursor Farhan Ahmed
2009-08-25 22:47 ` Bernardo
     [not found] ` <mailman.5369.1251240801.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-26  6:28   ` Joost Kremers [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.5360.1251240258.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-27  4:30 ` Elena

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