RE: Word search

[Drew Adams]

        I fully agree with Juri's point that the current keys to enter word 
        search is inconvenient, and I find the double meaning of C-w between 
        usual editing and word search difficult (I would prefer to have a less 
        easy to remember key to enter word search provided that that it does not

        overload the meaning of usual edition keys like C-w).

C-s C-w is not word search in the sense that you write below. C-s C-w yanks
characters or words into the search string, starting at the cursor position.
        
        FYI, unfortunately I was never able to have word search work properly. 
        For instance, when I try word search in the *info* node "Word search" 
        and I type "C-sC-w" then I type "the words" (all of these things 
        without double quotes) and then I type "", I would expect to find 
        the first occurrence at the end of first line of info node text which is
:
        
        ---- excerpt from info node Word Search --------------
        Word search searches for a sequence of words without regard to how the
        words are separated. More precisely, you type a string of many words,
        ---- end of excerpt -------------------------------------
        
I think what you want is incremental search for words. In vanilla Emacs you can
get to it this way: `C-s M-e C-w' - this is mentioned in the Emacs manual node
you cited, Word Search. Library isearch+.el binds the same thing to `C-s M-w',
which is a bit easier to use. 

FYI, isearch+.el is here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/isearch%2b.el.
It is described here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/IsearchPlus.