13 Incremental search commands
Keystrokes | Command name | Action |
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C-s Edit → Search → Incremental Search → Forward String | isearch-forward | Start incremental search forward; follow by search string. Also, find next occurrence (forward) of search string. |
C-r Edit → Search → Incremental Search → Backward String | isearch-backward | Start incremental search backward; follow by search string. Also, find next occurrence (backward) of search string. |
Enter | isearch-exit | In an incremental search , exit the search. |
C-g | keyboard-quit | In an incremental search , cancel the search. |
Del | isearch-delete-char | In an incremental search, delete character from search string. |
C-s C-w | isearch-yank-word | Start an incremental search with the word the cursor is on as the search string. |
C-s C-y | isearch-yank-line | Start an incremental search with the text from the cursor position to the end of the line as the search string. |
C-s M-y | isearch-yank-kill | Start an incremental search with text from the kill ring as the search string. |
C-s C-s | isearch-repeat-forward | Repeat previous search. |
C-r C-r | isearch-repeat-backward | Repeat previous search backward. |
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