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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: search the 2nd time
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Date: 7 Feb 90 23:57:50 GMT
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In your message of Wed, 07 Feb 90 14:57:17 EST, you write:
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| 	Some people here (edt users) want search mapped to a key
| and re-search for that string mapped to another key.  I see the function
| re-search, but I don't know how to make it keep the search string like
| the 2nd ctrl-S does.  Would someone show me how to do this?

| 	We're running GNU.18.51 on a Ultrix machine.

| 	Thanks
| 		Drew Burton
| 		American Math Society
| 		drb@math.ams.com
| -------
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Emacs "re-search" does not mean "repeat search"; it means "search using regular
expression".  To repeat a search, simply call the search function again and
press RET for the search string.  It is possible that you can formalize that
as a function (untested):

(defun repe{vt-sw3earch-forward ()
  "Repeat search"
  (interactive)
  (search-forward ""))

No promises....

++Brandon