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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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How can I specify the background color for matching search results?

When I incrementally search for a phrase with C-S, emacs usually highlights all matching results visible in the buffer by giving them a different background color. However, my current theme apparently …
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Selecting (i.e., as the region) the current match in incremental search

When searching for a string with C-s, I want to be able to hit some key to exit search mode but still maintain the selection of the match. That way I can immediately start typing and replace the last …
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