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Re: incremental search


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: incremental search
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:06:25 -0400
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In article <m38xj5rmdd.fsf@localhost.localdomain>,
 Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi
> C-s turns on incremental search but it is not doing what I am
> expecting which is;
> when I want to find "man" it high finds "woman", how can I limit it to
> the word "man", do I need to regex incremental search?

If you don't mind a non-interactive search, you can use M-x 
word-search-forward.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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