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Re: How to search a whole word in emacs?
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Eric Hanchrow |
Subject: |
Re: How to search a whole word in emacs? |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:08:24 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
I need to search a whole word in a big file. For example, I need to
search "Machine" but I don't need to know anything like
"machine_state", "running_machine_state" etc. The search shall be case
sensitive.
I've tried C-s ret C-w Machine but it returns every word with
"Machine" in it. I just need the exact word.
You want either
M-C-s \ b M a c h i n e \ b
or perhaps
M-x word-search-forward RET Machine RET
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