Day two of my serie about emacs, about searching and replacing.
Function name : isearch-forward
Typical Key sequence : C-s
How to get help : C-h f isearch-forward
Usage : isearch-forward let you type a string to be searched incrementally in the current buffer, successive following C-s will jump to the next match.
Function name : isearch-forward-regexp
Typical Key sequence : C-M-s or C-u C-s
How to get help : C-h f isearch-forward-regexp
Usage : isearch-forward-regexp let you type a regexp to be searched incrementally in the current buffer, successive following C-s will jump to the next match.
Function name : query-replace
Typical Key sequence : M-%
How to get help : C-h f query-replace
Usage : M-% search RET replace RET
Then, for each term found, query-replace will ask you what to do : space or y to replace, delete or n to skip, RET or q to exit, ! for ‘yes for all’, ? to get help about how to enter recursive edit / delete match and recursive edit / edit replacement string / …
Then you should read about replace-string, replace-regexp, occur, list-matching-lines, multi-occur, multi-occur-in-matching-buffers, how-many, flush-lines, and keep-lines.
Case sensitivity :
A search is by defaut case insensitive, but if you input an upper case letter, it become case sensitive. M-c during a search toggle the case sensitivity.
Configuration variables :
You may consult the documentation about those variable typing :
C-h v variable
or
M-x apropos-variable RET case-fold-search RET
- case-fold-search (Non-nil if searches and matches should ignore case.)
- default-case-fold-search (Default value of `case-fold-search’)
- tags-case-fold-search (Whether tags operations should be case-sensitive.)