Re: Search for a word in Emacs as is done in gvim

[Tassilo Horn]

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:

Hi David,

>>No, do `M-b C-s C-w' and be fine.  (M-b goes to the beginning of the
>>word, C-s starts isearch and C-w captures the word from point to end
>>and inserts it at the isearch prompt.
>
>
> WOW!  IT WORKS!  That C-w deposits the word into the search string!
>
> Now, just WHERE  is that documented?

It's a speciality of isearch, so it's documented there.

,----[ C-h k C-s ]
| C-s runs the command isearch-forward, which is an interactive compiled
| Lisp function in `isearch.el'.
| 
| It is bound to C-s, <menu-bar> <edit> <search> <i-search>
| <isearch-forward>.
| 
| (isearch-forward &optional regexp-p no-recursive-edit)
| 
| Do incremental search forward.
| With a prefix argument, do an incremental regular expression search
| instead.
| 
| As you type characters, they add to the search string and are found.
| The following non-printing keys are bound in `isearch-mode-map'.
| 
| Type DEL to cancel last input item from end of search string.
| Type RET to exit, leaving point at location found.
| Type LFD (C-j) to match end of line.
| Type C-s to search again forward, C-r to search again backward.
| Type C-w to yank next word or character in buffer
|   onto the end of the search string, and search for it.
| Type C-M-w to delete character from end of search string.
| Type C-M-y to yank char from buffer onto end of search string and
| search for it.
| Type C-y to yank rest of line onto end of search string and search for
| it.
| Type M-y to yank the last string of killed text.
| Type C-q to quote control character to search for it.
| C-g while searching or when search has failed cancels input back to
| what has been found successfully.
| C-g when search is successful aborts and moves point to starting
| point.
| 
| If you try to exit with the search string still empty, it invokes
| nonincremental search.
| 
| Type M-c to toggle search case-sensitivity.
| Type M-r to toggle regular-expression mode.
| Type M-s w to toggle word mode.
| Type M-e to edit the search string in the minibuffer.
| 
| Also supported is a search ring of the previous 16 search strings.
| Type M-n to search for the next item in the search ring.
| Type M-p to search for the previous item in the search ring.
| Type M-TAB to complete the search string using the search ring.
| 
| Type M-% to run `query-replace' with string to replace from last
| search string.
| Type C-M-% to run `query-replace-regexp' with the last search string.
| Type M-s o to run `occur' that shows the last search string.
| Type M-s h r to run `highlight-regexp' that highlights the last search
| string.
| 
| Type C-h b to display all Isearch key bindings.
| Type C-h k to display documentation of Isearch key.
| Type C-h m to display documentation of Isearch mode.
| 
| If an input method is turned on in the current buffer, that input
| method is also active while you are typing characters to search.  To
| toggle the input method, type C-\.  It also toggles the input method
| in the current buffer.
| 
| To use a different input method for searching, type C-^,
| and specify an input method you want to use.
| 
| The above keys, bound in `isearch-mode-map', are often controlled by
| options; do C-h A on search-.* to find them.  Other control and meta
| characters terminate the search and are then executed normally
| (depending on `search-exit-option').  Likewise for function keys and
| mouse button events.
| 
| If this function is called non-interactively, it does not return to
| the calling function until the search is done.
`----

And it's in the manual, too.

,----[ (info "(emacs)Isearch Yank") ]
| Within incremental search, you can use `C-w' and `C-y' 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 and adds it to the
| search string, advancing point over it.  (The decision, whether to
| copy a character or a word, is heuristic.)
| 
|    `C-y' is similar to `C-w' but copies all the rest of the current
| line into the search string.  If point is already at the end of a
| line, it grabs the entire next line.  If the search is currently
| case-insensitive, both `C-y' and `C-w' convert the text they copy to
| lower case, so that the search remains case-insensitive.
| 
|    `C-M-w' and `C-M-y' modify the search string by only one character
| at a time: `C-M-w' deletes the last character from the search string
| and `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 `M-e' and to type
| `C-f' at the end of the search string in the minibuffer.
| 
|    The character `M-y' copies text from the kill ring into the search
| string.  It uses the same text that `C-y' would yank.  `Mouse-2' in
| the echo area does the same.  *Note Yanking::.
`----

Bye,
Tassilo
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