Function: isearch-forward-word

isearch-forward-word is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in isearch.el.gz.

Signature

(isearch-forward-word &optional NOT-WORD NO-RECURSIVE-EDIT)

Documentation

Do incremental search forward for a sequence of words.

With a prefix argument, do a regular string search instead. Like ordinary incremental search except that your input is treated as a sequence of words without regard to how the words are separated. See the command isearch-forward(var)/isearch-forward(fun) for more information. This command does not support character folding, and lax space matching has no effect on it.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 23.1.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/isearch.el.gz
(defun isearch-forward-word (&optional not-word no-recursive-edit)
  "Do incremental search forward for a sequence of words.
With a prefix argument, do a regular string search instead.
Like ordinary incremental search except that your input is treated
as a sequence of words without regard to how the words are separated.
See the command `isearch-forward' for more information.
This command does not support character folding, and lax space matching
has no effect on it."
  (interactive "P\np")
  (isearch-mode t nil nil (not no-recursive-edit) (null not-word)))