changeset 56306:f8704be4375b

(Incremental Search): Add C-M-w, C-M-y, M-%, C-M-%, M-e. (Regexp Search): Add M-r.

--- a/man/search.texi	Thu Jul 01 10:01:32 2004 +0000
+++ b/man/search.texi	Thu Jul 01 11:50:29 2004 +0000
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 @key{RET} is necessary only if the next command you want to type is a
 printing character, @key{DEL}, @key{RET}, or another character that is
 special within searches (@kbd{C-q}, @kbd{C-w}, @kbd{C-r}, @kbd{C-s},
-@kbd{C-y}, @kbd{M-y}, @kbd{M-r}, @kbd{M-s}, and some other
+@kbd{C-y}, @kbd{M-y}, @kbd{M-r}, @kbd{M-c}, @kbd{M-e}, and some other
 meta-characters).
 
   Sometimes you search for @samp{FOO} and find one, but not the one you
@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@
   To reuse earlier search strings, use the @dfn{search ring}.  The
 commands @kbd{M-p} and @kbd{M-n} move through the ring to pick a search
 string to reuse.  These commands leave the selected search ring element
-in the minibuffer, where you can edit it.  Type @kbd{C-s} or @kbd{C-r}
+in the minibuffer, where you can edit it.  To edit the current search
+string in the minibuffer without replacing it with items from the
+search ring, type @kbd{M-e}.  Type @kbd{C-s} or @kbd{C-r}
 to terminate editing the string and search for it.
 
   If your string is not found at all, the echo area says @samp{Failing
@@ -181,7 +183,7 @@
 backward search finds matches that are entirely before the starting
 point, just as a forward search finds matches that begin after it.
 
-  The characters @kbd{C-y} and @kbd{C-w} can be used in incremental
+  The characters @kbd{C-w} and @kbd{C-y} can be used in incremental
 search to grab text from the buffer into the search string.  This
 makes it convenient to search for another occurrence of text at point.
 @kbd{C-w} copies the character or word after point as part of the
@@ -195,6 +197,14 @@
 convert the text they copy to lower case if the search is currently
 not case-sensitive; this is so the search remains case-insensitive.
 
+  @kbd{C-M-w} and @kbd{C-M-y} modify the search string by only one
+character at a time: @kbd{C-M-w} deletes the last character from the
+search string and @kbd{C-M-y} copies the character after point to the
+end of the search string.  An alternative method to add the character
+after point into the search string is to enter the minibuffer by
+@kbd{M-e} and to type @kbd{C-f} at the end of the search string in the
+minibuffer.
+
   The character @kbd{M-y} copies text from the kill ring into the search
 string.  It uses the same text that @kbd{C-y} as a command would yank.
 @kbd{Mouse-2} in the echo area does the same.
@@ -205,6 +215,11 @@
 there.  In Transient Mark mode, incremental search sets the mark without
 activating it, and does so only if the mark is not already active.
 
+  @kbd{M-%} or @kbd{C-M-%} exits the incremental search and starts an
+interactive command @code{query-replace} or @code{query-replace-regexp}
+with the last search string inserted in the minibuffer as initial input
+for the string to replace.
+
 @cindex lazy search highlighting
 @vindex isearch-lazy-highlight
   When you pause for a little while during incremental search, it
@@ -371,14 +386,16 @@
 @kindex C-M-r
 @findex isearch-backward-regexp
   Incremental search for a regexp is done by typing @kbd{C-M-s}
-(@code{isearch-forward-regexp}), or by invoking @kbd{C-s} with a
-prefix argument (whose value does not matter).  This command reads a
+(@code{isearch-forward-regexp}), by invoking @kbd{C-s} with a
+prefix argument (whose value does not matter), or by typing @kbd{M-r}
+within a forward incremental search.  This command reads a
 search string incrementally just like @kbd{C-s}, but it treats the
 search string as a regexp rather than looking for an exact match
 against the text in the buffer.  Each time you add text to the search
 string, you make the regexp longer, and the new regexp is searched
 for.  To search backward for a regexp, use @kbd{C-M-r}
-(@code{isearch-backward-regexp}), or @kbd{C-r} with a prefix argument.
+(@code{isearch-backward-regexp}), @kbd{C-r} with a prefix argument,
+or @kbd{M-r} within a backward incremental search.
 
   All of the control characters that do special things within an
 ordinary incremental search have the same function in incremental regexp
@@ -925,7 +942,7 @@
 
   Global search-and-replace operations are not needed often in Emacs,
 but they are available.  In addition to the simple @kbd{M-x
-replace-string} command which is like that found in most editors,
+replace-string} command which replaces all occurrences,
 there is a @kbd{M-x query-replace} command which finds each occurrence
 of the pattern and asks you whether to replace it.