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| author | Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> | 2006-11-01 23:17:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> | 2006-11-01 23:17:22 +0000 |
| commit | cadc14ec8ae6d2873c3f4b5b7b4dd761d72e8744 (patch) | |
| tree | d6347365fd7eda391de324b5d4a94479dc54e170 /man | |
| parent | a9b9303c47dc939016f7e698345fc2ca2e8c091b (diff) | |
| download | emacs-cadc14ec8ae6d2873c3f4b5b7b4dd761d72e8744.tar.gz | |
(Word Search): Document incremental word search.
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/search.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/search.texi b/man/search.texi index b1ed713715b..67b61aeac07 100644 --- a/man/search.texi +++ b/man/search.texi @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ Search for @var{words}, ignoring details of punctuation. Search backward for @var{words}, ignoring details of punctuation. @end table - Word search is a special case of nonincremental search and is invoked + Word search as a special case of nonincremental search is invoked with @kbd{C-s @key{RET} C-w}. This is followed by the search string, which must always be terminated with @key{RET}. Being nonincremental, this search does not start until the argument is terminated. It works @@ -426,6 +426,13 @@ by constructing a regular expression and searching for that; see Use @kbd{C-r @key{RET} C-w} to do backward word search. + You can also invoke word search with @kbd{C-s M-e C-w} or @kbd{C-r +M-e C-w} followed by the search string and terminated with @key{RET}, +@kbd{C-s} or @kbd{C-r}. This puts word search into incremental mode +where you can use all keys available for incremental search. However, +when you type more words in incremental word search, it will fail +until you type complete words. + @findex word-search-forward @findex word-search-backward Forward and backward word searches are implemented by the commands |