expand word in search

expand word in search

[Cecil Westerhof]

Is it possible to expand to the current word when searchin in Emacs.
For example I did c-s and typed 'def'. I know stand with the cursor on
'DefinedFunction13'. This is the string I want to search for. Is it
possible to expand the searchstring to this word, without typing it in?

Re: expand word in search

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 13.06.2007 um 09:07 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:

> Is it
> possible to expand the searchstring to this word, without typing it  
> in?

C-w.

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Re: expand word in search

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:07:29 +0200
> 
> Is it possible to expand to the current word when searchin in Emacs.
> For example I did c-s and typed 'def'. I know stand with the cursor on
> 'DefinedFunction13'. This is the string I want to search for. Is it
> possible to expand the searchstring to this word, without typing it in?

Type C-s C-w, and Emacs will automatically search for word at point.
You don't even need to type 'def'.

Re: expand word in search

[Cecil Westerhof]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> Is it
>> possible to expand the searchstring to this word, without typing it
>> in?
> 
> C-w.

That works. I'll like Emacs more and more. :-}

I only started using Emacs a short while ago. I wanted to do it earlier, but
'everyone' told me it was to difficult and I should stick with vim. I
should not have listened.
Yesterday I saw something about Gnus. I'll need to look into that also.