Re: incremental search

[Malte Spiess]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> 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.

You can also type C-s RET C-w for word-search. But this somehow only
finds one occurance.

It is always possible to redefine a key, but if you're just a beginner I
would probably rather recommand making a regexp-search with the
beginning and the end of the word.

I personally wouldn't want to have the behaviour you describe, maybe you
should think it over if it's really a fortune to have it generally (of
course sometimes it's helpful).

Malte