Slick V3.3 manual Find and Replace Commands, Find and Slash / Commands

Find and Replace Commands

Keys

Ctrl+Shift+W

Function

(GNU Emacs emulation) Toggle word searching on and off.

Incremental searching stops when you press a key that does not insert a character. You can press Esc to terminate an incremental search (only during prompting). Press and hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift to terminate a long search.

You can retrieve your previous search string by invoking the i_search or reverse_i_search command and pressing Ctrl+S or Ctrl+R, respectively, before entering a search string.

Find and Replace Commands

Find and Slash (/) Commands

The command line is available for performing searches. You can use the forward slash (/) or find com- mands which provide the same functionality as the Find and Replace view. Press Esc to toggle the cursor to the command line.

The syntax of the slash (/) command is:

/string[/OptionCharacters]

The syntax of the find command is:

find /string/[OptionCharacters]

OptionCharacters is one or more of the following option characters:

Table 6.10. OptionCharacters for find and Slash (/) Commands

Option	Description
E	Exact case.
I	Ignore case.
-	Reverse search.
M	Limit search to selection.
<	If found, place cursor at beginning of word.
>	If found, place cursor at end of word.

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