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Re: Isearch functionality


From: Joel J. Adamson
Subject: Re: Isearch functionality
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:59:52 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

weber <hugows@gmail.com> writes:

> This would be very useful since many times the search string you are
> looking for is exactly what you want to remove, and it may be
> something inside a word, so you can't just end isearch and do a kill
> word. Do you get me ?

Hmmm...I'm unsure if I understand what you want.  It sounds like what
you want is search and replace, replacing with "" (nothing, that is,
accomplished by hitting return when prompted for a replacement
string).  I do this all the time.  I often think there must be an even
more elegant way to do it.  You can even use a regexp replacement
search to delete stuff.  It's very versatile.

How is what you want different?

Joel

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