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Counsel M-x always shows "^"
ivy-initial-inputs-alist is a variable that controls the default minibuffer contents when using ivy (which is used by counsel).
The default "^" string means that if you type something immediately ...
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Only show lines containing phrase/regex
...see all the lines from the current buffer...
With built-in commands and no external packages or dependencies in
a new buffer, use:
M-x occur
the same buffer, use:
M-x keep-lines
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How do I find text across many open buffers?
swiper-all from the swiper package provides a tool for doing this. It's even incremental, so it updates as you type.
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Search through the values of all variables in Emacs
Does apropos-value do what you're looking for?
(apropos-value PATTERN &optional DO-ALL)
Show all symbols whose value’s printed representation matches PATTERN.
PATTERN can be a word, a list of ...
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Difference between `evil-search-forward` and `evil-ex-search-forward`
evil has two search implementations, one is its own, the other one is a wrapper around emacs isearch. evil-search-forward wraps isearch-forward, evil-ex-search-forward invokes the internal search.
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Is there a more efficient alternative to search-forward when searching for a single character?
I have run the following benchmarks on
GNU Emacs 27.0.50
(build 14, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2018-02-21
without customisations, i.e. by starting Emacs with the -Q flag.
...
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Swiper get last search term
When you invoke swiper press M-p to search for previously searched thing.
M-n will let you search for the word under cursor.
C-s will search for the next occurence.
UPD, thx @Basil
After you ...
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how to search and replace an entire word?
You don't need to define a separate function (command) for this. And even if you did define one, it need not use query-replace-regexp.
The standard command query-replace does just what you request, ...
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How to select text found by `re-search-forward`?
One way to do it:
(defun my-search-forward (str)
(interactive "smy-search-forward: ")
(when (re-search-forward str nil t)
(setf
(point) (match-beginning 0)
(mark) (match-end 0))))
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Gracefully Exiting a While Loop
re-search-forward has an option for not causing an error:
(re-search-forward REGEXP &optional BOUND NOERROR COUNT)
You should call (re-search-forward "..." nil t) and your while will receive a ...
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How to check if a string exists in the current buffer?
I think the easiest approach would be
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-min))
(search-forward string nil t))
This will return non-nil if the given string is in the current buffer.
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Does "Occur-at-point" already exist?
There are a number of Emacs commands for which M-n at the input prompt (next-history-element) will insert a reasonable default if there is no next history element available. For occur that happens to ...
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Getting number of occurrences, during incremental search (C-s / isearch-forward)
As of emacs 27.1, this is now built-in to isearch.
To turn on:
(setq isearch-lazy-count t)
To compare with anzu, the count is shows in the minibuffer prompt, rather than the modeline.
See the ...
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How to center the current line vertically during Isearch
The simplest way to do this is:
(defadvice isearch-update (before my-isearch-reposite activate)
(sit-for 0)
(recenter 1))
A better but more complicated:
(defadvice isearch-update (before my-...
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How to center the current line vertically during Isearch
For Isearch, you can set option isearch-allow-scroll to non-nil. That lets you scroll the buffer you are searching, without exiting Isearch.
And note that "scrolling" here includes C-l, which ...
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What is the easiest way to search all useful files inside a single project?
If your project uses Git, you only need counsel https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper
counsel-git to find file
counsel-git-grep to grep
The only dependency is git
Text grepping is faster than the ...
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When to use normal incremental search in place of the regex version?
Yes: if you want to search for a literal string, but that string contains special regex characters, it'll require extra escaping on your part.
Example text to search: "some*text"
C-s some*text ...
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How to search in multiple files with Emacs without grep?
You can use Windows' builtin findstr command with M-x rgrep:
(when (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
(with-eval-after-load 'grep
;; findstr can handle the basic find|grep use case
(grep-apply-...
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How to search in multiple files with Emacs without grep?
you can try the xah-find package.
https://github.com/xahlee/xah-find
it is pure elisp, and designed just for emacs without external grep tools.
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How to search in multiple files with Emacs without grep?
The Elisp package elgrep is a swiss army knife for searching files.
It is available on melpa.
There are no dependencies on external tools as long as you do not search the contents of pdf documents.
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how do I do case sensitive searches using evil/spacemacs?
Short and narrow answer
You need to set the variable case-fold-search to nil in order
to have case sensitive search. So: put this somewhere in your init file:
(setq case-fold-search nil)
See the ...
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Selecting (i.e., as the region) the current match in incremental search
Here's one approach:
(defun isearch-exit-mark-match ()
"Exit isearch and mark the current match."
(interactive)
(isearch-exit)
(push-mark isearch-other-end)
(activate-mark))
(define-key ...
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7
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edit search string and begin search from current location
During Isearch M-e is bound to isearch-edit-string. It pauses Isearch and puts the current search string in the minibuffer so you can edit it. Just use C-s again to resume searching from the current ...
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How to search by tags in org-mode
org-tags-view shows matches in all agenda files: you have to add this file to your agenda files (at least temporarily). You can do that with C-c[: that adds it to the front of the list of agenda files ...
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How to get back to minibuffer during an interactive search?
You can hit M-e to edit the current search term. This runs the command isearch-edit-string. You can then type C-s to resume the search.
To get a list of all key bindings available during isearch, ...
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How do I search the whole word in swoop?
You can use any regexps supported by Emacs, which provides \b as a match for the boundary of a word. So swooping for \bin\b will match in but not input, begin or being.
The full list of Emacs-...
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in Emacs regex, how to search for uppercase letters only?
You can temporarily bind case-fold-search using let:
(let ((case-fold-search nil))
(looking-at "[\n\t ]*[A-Z]"))
Also, I changed your regexp for matching whitespace and newlines -- a ] was missing ...
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Is it possible to insert word at point in swiper?
You can insert symbol at point with M-n - the same key as the history forward, which is one of the recommended Emacs workflows for inserting thing at point.
Additionally, M-j will extend the ...
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History of search terms for evil mode?
You will find things more Vim like with the Evil search module rather than isearch search module with Evil :
(evil-select-search-module 'evil-search-module 'evil-search)
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