Function: nonincremental-repeat-search-backward

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

Signature

(nonincremental-repeat-search-backward)

Documentation

Search backward for the previous search string or regexp.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/menu-bar.el.gz
(defun nonincremental-repeat-search-backward ()
  "Search backward for the previous search string or regexp."
  (interactive)
  (cond
   ((and (eq menu-bar-last-search-type 'string)
	 search-ring)
    (nonincremental-search-backward))
   ((and (eq menu-bar-last-search-type 'regexp)
	 regexp-search-ring)
    (re-search-backward (car regexp-search-ring)))
   (t
    (error "No previous search"))))