On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:21:05PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Jim Osborn wrote: > > Entering "word-find-forward" (without the quotes) directly into the > > minibuffer produces a message: "(word-find-forward)" below the > > minibuffer. After about five seconds, the message is replaced by > > "Font: Default" but nothing has happened, the cursor in the main > > window hasn't moved, etc. > > "M-x word-find-forward <your word>", perhaps?
Thanks again, Angus. I think I understand now, there's no real communication between the Search popup (bound to C-s in the standard emacs.bind), useful for doing Find/Replace, and the M-x word-find-forward lfun. That is, they don't share the search string in their respective buffers, it seems, as Emacs does. Binding word-find-forward to a key, then starting things rolling by typing; M-x word-find-forward <my word><ret> allows me to jump to subsequent instances of <my word> by pressing the key w-f-f is bound to, so that's handy for searching when the cost of all that typing makes it worth it. :) I don't suppose there's a way to get that "M-x word-find-forward" bit into the minibuffer without having to type it all in, is there? I notice the minibuffer doesn't do auto-completion. I tried binding "command-execute word-find-forward" but that just seems to pop me into the minibuffer, and when I type <my word>, I get (Unknown function: <my word>). I couldn't seem to find a variant with command-sequence that helped. Thanks again for all your help, Angus; I really appreciate it. Jim
