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Search options not deleted user 118

is the incremental search facility that highlights matching text as characters are typed. isearch-forward and isearch-backward support searching characters, strings, and regexp.

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Make isearch commands search only at the beginning of words

Here's what I use to do this ;; Use isearch-forward-word by default (treats a space as any whitespace or punctuation) (global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'isearch-forward-word) ;; This is the same as isearch-forward-word … source of isearch-forward-word and changed the first argument of isearch-mode to nil to do reverse isearch. …
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Delete portion of Isearch string that does not match, or last char if complete match

I have the following (defun isearch-del-fail-or-char () "Delete failed isearch text, or if there is none, a single character." … (interactive) (if (isearch-fail-pos) (delete-region (isearch-fail-pos) (point)) (isearch-del-char))) (define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "DEL") 'isearch-del-fail-or-char) The purpose of the …
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