Function: nonincremental-re-search-backward

nonincremental-re-search-backward is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in menu-bar.el.gz.

Signature

(nonincremental-re-search-backward STRING)

Documentation

Read a regular expression and search backward for it nonincrementally.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/menu-bar.el.gz
(defun nonincremental-re-search-backward (string)
  "Read a regular expression and search backward for it nonincrementally."
  (interactive "sSearch for regexp: ")
  (setq menu-bar-last-search-type 'regexp)
  (if (equal string "")
      (re-search-backward (car regexp-search-ring))
    (isearch-update-ring string t)
    (re-search-backward string)))