Re: Isearch in dired

[Chong Yidong]

"Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

> It would be useful for isearch in a dired buffer to match only file
> names by default.  I think this would be a good feature -- if we can
> come up with a natural way to request ordinary search of the entire
> buffer.

Emacs 23 has the M-s f C-s (dired-isearch-filenames) command which does
just that, and the variable dired-isearch-filename which can be changed
to non-nil to make C-s do the same as M-s f C-s.