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changeset 73606:2163c8428b91
(Word Search): Document incremental word search.
| author | Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> |
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| date | Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:17:22 +0000 |
| parents | f89141aaba7c |
| children | 95562bf680a2 |
| files | man/search.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/search.texi Wed Nov 01 23:11:08 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/search.texi Wed Nov 01 23:17:22 2006 +0000 @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ 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 @@ 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