20.1 Incremental Search
An incremental search begins searching as soon as you type the first
character of the search string. As you type in the search string, Emacs
shows you where the string (as you have typed it so far) would be
found. When you have typed enough characters to identify the place you
want, you can stop. Depending on what you plan to do next, you may or
may not need to terminate the search explicitly with <RET>.
- C-s
- Incremental search forward (
isearch-forward).
- C-r
- Incremental search backward (
isearch-backward).
