RE: VHDL and Emacs (My experience)

[Drew Adams]

> C-s ... Unfortunately, it still requires me to type the word...
> to start the search. I was looking for something that allows me
> to select an existing word... (with mouse or keyboard), and
> search for other occurrences of that word. ...

C-s M-y appends copied text to the search string.

C-s M-w appends the word starting at the cursor to the search string.
Use additional M-w to append additional words.