ISearch

Starts an incremental search that will proceed forward (toward the end of the open file) from the current cursor position. When you run ISearch, the word Srch: is displayed in the status bar, indicating that you should begin typing the text that you wish to locate. As you type each character, the next piece of text in the open file that matches what you have typed so far will be selected, and the cursor will be moved to the matching text. If no matching text can be found before the end of the open file, the editor will beep.

If an incremental search is already in progress when this command is executed, the next piece of text after the cursor which matches the characters typed so far will be selected. In this way, each piece of text matching the search text will be selected in succession, once for each time that the ISearch command is re-executed. If there are no more matching pieces of text before the end of the open file, the incremental search will "wrap around", proceeding from the top of the open file.

To search the open file using more powerful methods such as regular expression matching, use the Search command instead. See also BackISearch.

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