Re: keyboard regexp shortcuts

[Jambunathan K]

Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/17/12 10:20 AM, Perry Smith wrote:
>> Very often, I do a regex search (M-C-s) of \_<foo\_> because I don't
>> want to find bad_foo_dog.
>>
>> Typing the \ _ < and \ _ > is tedious.  Can someone suggest a way to
>> make that easier?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Perry
>>
>
> Here's what I use:
>
> (defun my-isearch-word ()
>   "Surround current input with word/symbol delimiters and turn on regexp 
> matching if necessary."
>   (interactive)
>   (unless isearch-regexp
>     (isearch-toggle-regexp))
>   (setq isearch-string (concat "\\_<" isearch-string "\\_>")
>         isearch-message (mapconcat 'isearch-text-char-description 
> isearch-string ""))
>   (isearch-search-and-update))
>
> (define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "M-w") 'my-isearch-word)

In development version of Emacs, there is a better way.

,---- NEWS
| * Editing Changes in Emacs 24.3
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| ** Search changes
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| *** Global `M-s _' starts a symbol (identifier) incremental search,
| and `M-s _' in Isearch toggles symbol search mode.
| `M-s c' in Isearch toggles search case-sensitivity.
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