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Any existing package that can do incremental search inside a function definition instead of the whole buffer?

Now the best I can do is to turn on semantic-mode along with semantic-stickyfunc-mode and carefully search within its scope.

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    Can you explain what you want more clearly? Do what to do the search from an elisp function, or do want to search interactively within the text of a function definition in some file? In the latter case, you could use narrowing to limit the search.
    – Andrew Swann
    Mar 13, 2017 at 7:39
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    C-x n d (or M-x narrow-to-defun) then search?
    – xuchunyang
    Mar 13, 2017 at 9:17

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As @xuchunyang said in a comment to your question, you can first narrow the buffer to the function definition.

Or you can use library Isearch+, which lets you search just the active region, without narrowing.

Non-nil option isearchp-restrict-to-region-flag does this. You can use C-x n (command isearchp-toggle-region-restriction) during search to toggle this option value.

Also, deactivation of the active region when you search is controlled by option isearchp-deactivate-region-flag.

(NOTE: For search to be limited to the active region in Info, you must also use library Info+.)

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