# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 998326810 0 # Node ID d8ab01673218fee26533825cd1d277fe00d0f1f5 # Parent fbd6d00d4087918dd0a561fd096bd5a75de4b574 Minor clarifications. diff -r fbd6d00d4087 -r d8ab01673218 man/search.texi --- a/man/search.texi Mon Aug 20 10:36:41 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/search.texi Mon Aug 20 17:00:10 2001 +0000 @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ @kbd{C-s} starts a forward incremental search. It reads characters from the keyboard, and moves point past the next occurrence of those characters. If you type @kbd{C-s} and then @kbd{F}, that puts the -cursor after the first @samp{F} (following the starting point, since +cursor after the first @samp{F} (the first following the starting point, since this is a forward search). Then if you type an @kbd{O}, you will see the cursor move just after the first @samp{FO} (the @samp{F} in that @samp{FO} may or may not be the first @samp{F}). After another @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ @cindex searching for non-ASCII characters @cindex input method, during incremental search To search for non-ASCII characters, you must use an input method -(@pxref{Input Methods}). If an input method is turned on in the +(@pxref{Input Methods}). If an input method is enabled in the current buffer when you start the search, you can use it while you type the search string also. Emacs indicates that by including the input method mnemonic in its prompt, like this: @@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ string with @kbd{C-\} (@code{isearch-toggle-input-method}). You can turn on a certain (non-default) input method with @kbd{C-^} (@code{isearch-toggle-specified-input-method}), which prompts for the -name of the input method. Note that the input method you turn on -during incremental search remains enabled in the current buffer as well. +name of the input method. The input method you enable during +incremental search remains enabled in the current buffer afterwards. If a search is failing and you ask to repeat it by typing another @kbd{C-s}, it starts again from the beginning of the buffer.