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Re: Structural regular expressions


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: Structural regular expressions
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:03:06 +0200

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>> There is a related need for searching that could be built on such
>> capability: AND.
>>
>> Quite often I find myself searching for a node/a tree in a big .org
>> file containing both word a and word b.
>
> And in an unspecified order, no doubt.  In vanilla Emacs the closest we have 
> for
> this is `apropos' with keyword input.  The behavior is special-built for this
> particular command; it is not a general feature.
>
> In Icicles you can hit `S-SPC' to get such `AND' filtering during completion 
> (of
> any input).  You can add patterns on the fly, preceding each by `S-SPC', thus
> narrowing down the choices progressively, as you see fit.  I call this
> "progressive" completion.
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Nutshell_View#toc10

It does not look to me like it I can search for org nodes containing
both word a and word b with the progressive completion in Icicles. Can
I?



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