Re: Word search

[Vincent Belaïche]

Dear Drew,

I am realizing that there was no mistake in the mail before the latest
one I sent, but that the mailing system has stripped off a part of it.
What I meant was "C-sxxxC-w" where instread of "xxx" I had written "RET"
between less-than and greater-than signs. But it seems that this xxx has
been stripped off by the mailing system.
Similarly I meant that I terminated the interactive search by "C-s" or
by "xxx" where xxx has the same meaning as above (a carriage return
key). The fact is that I am writing to you with Thunderbird using an
adds-on that allows to use hotmail without going through the Web
interface (it seems that there is some bug with this when HTML is used).

More answers embedded below (please read at least the last one) :

Drew Adams a écrit :
> Two comments: (1) address@hidden might be a more appropriate list.
> Consider moving this there. (2) Please use plain-text for these mailing lists.
>
> Sorry Drew, There was a mistake in my mail, I did not mean
> "C-sC-w" but I meant "C-sC-w".
>
> What's the difference? They look the same to me.
>

They were not the same when I sent the mail there was RET bracketted
with LT and GT signs in between "C-s" and "C-w". So when I am sending
this mail "C-sC-w" is different from "C-sC-w"
> I tested it again and it does not work.
>
> That you for the information on the incremental word search
> ("C-sM-eC-w"). I tested it on the same node, and whether I terminate by
> "C-s" or by "" it fails in the same way. To tell you the truth, I
> had not even tried that, as the plain non incremental one was not
> working in the first place.
>
> Not sure what you mean by terminate by "C-s" or by "".
When I sent the mail between the pair of double quotes "" there was a
RET bracketted by LT and GT signs. So when I ma sending this mail "" is
different from "".
> Does it at least work, in
> the sense that it finds what you are looking for, regardless of how you
> terminate the search?
It does not find what I am looking for. When I type "C-sM-eC-w" I enter
Incremental word search (I can see that as on the left side of the
minibuffer is written "Word I-search"). Then if I type "the words" and
then RET I get an error message "[(wrong-type-argument
integer-or-marker-p t)]" and the cursor of the *info* buffer remains at
the same position, that is to say on the Top Left of the window, just on
the "F" in "File: emacs, Node: Word Search, Next: Regexp Search,
Prev: Nonincremental Search, Up: Search"

More strange is the following: if I enter again the incremental word
search, and I type on the right arrow key, what happens is that the
content of the *info* buffer is copied character by character into the
minibuffer. That is to say, assume that I type 5 times on the right
arrow key, then the effect is as if I had entered the five characters
"F" "i" "l" "e" and ":" consecutively (remember that when I enter the
Word-I-search the *info* buffer point is pointing at the beginning the
text "File: emacs, Node: Word Search, Next: Regexp Search, Prev:
Nonincremental Search, Up: Search"

Regards,
Vincent.
> To terminate the search, you can just use RET or an arrow
> key or another non-isearch key (except C-g). What do you mean by ""?
>
>
>
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