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Spirine
Spirine

Reputation: 1877

In Emacs, how to search in the whole file?

Consider the following text file:

foo
bar
yoo
ploo

Imagine that I want to search the word foo and that my cursor in in the third line. I use C-s which calls isearch-forward, then input foo and press Enter: the issue is that by default, my cursor stays at the same position, unless I press C-s once again before pressing Enter. Indeed, I would like isearch-forward to move in the whole file, and not only the part of the file that is after the cursor. How could I do this ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 908

Answers (1)

scinart
scinart

Reputation: 466

Possible Duplicate:

Automatically wrapping I-search?

Try this: (copied from the link above)

(defadvice isearch-search (after isearch-no-fail activate)
  (unless isearch-success
    (ad-disable-advice 'isearch-search 'after 'isearch-no-fail)
    (ad-activate 'isearch-search)
    (isearch-repeat (if isearch-forward 'forward))
    (ad-enable-advice 'isearch-search 'after 'isearch-no-fail)
    (ad-activate 'isearch-search)))

Upvotes: 3

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