Re: VHDL and Emacs (My experience)

[Mike Treseler]

Andy wrote:

>  I had to set another couple of
> options to get it to treat the selected text as "pending delete" too.

I do that with query-replace.

> I just wish there was a handy way to select a word or phrase in the
> code and then search for other occurrences of it, with minimal
> additional typing. There probably is, but I just don't know it yet!

Like most tasks, it's easy once you know how to do it :)

C-s

Then type enough letters to see the instances light up.

C-s again to jump to the next instance, etc.

     -- Mike Treseler