Re: Search waht is under the cursor

[Nick Roberts]

 > Hello
 > I would like to search the string that is currently under the cursor.
 > It should do something very similar to C-s and C-r but take the string
 > that is currently under the cursor as a default search pattern.

  The characters `C-w' and `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.  `C-w'
  copies the character or word after point as part of the search string,
  advancing point over it.  (The decision, whether to copy a character or
  a word, is heuristic.)  Another `C-s' to repeat the search will then
  search for a string including that character or word.

Hopefully next time this will help you search the manual more effectively
first!

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob