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From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Need help with emacs screen management!
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Date: 2 Jan 90 22:33:57 GMT
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>> 4. At 1200 baud the isearch feature is rediculous. search is a
>> better alternative. How can I repeat the search without keying in
>> the whole string again?

> First check out search-slow-speed.  It might make you like isearch a
> whole lot more.  Some versions of Emacs allow the previous search to
> be repeated by offering a zero length string as the pattern to search-
> forward.  I don't think this is offered in GNU Emacs, though (default
> configuration) hitting C-s after starting isearch will fill in the
> text of the last isearch that exited normally.

> Dave

I got frustrated enough with this to do something about it.  I will
post search.el, a set of routines which provide full editing of the
non-incremental search string.
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