On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 02:22 Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> wrote:
On 1/14/22 3:29 PM, Ján Tomko wrote:
On a Friday in 2022, Laine Stump wrote:
Since it's Friday and we're talking about personal preferences - I personally dislike the use of i and j (and anything else with a single letter) as variable names, because it makes using a text search for occurences pointless. Sure, longer variable names could also be a substring of something else, and any variable could be re-used elsewhere, but even then a search is mildly usable.
Well, you need to search for the word i instead of the letter i.
grep has the '-w' switch for that, or you can specify some boundaries: \bi\b \<i\>
vim searches for the word under the cursor with '*' by default
Surely other search tools have some equivalent.
This forced me to go look for it in emacs, and after 28 years, I've learned about isearch-forward-symbol-at-point, which is by default bound to [alt-s .]. But that's just another different keystroke I have to remember. Much easier if I can just use an expansion of the ctl-s (incremental search) that I already know and use for pretty much all searching within a single file.
Haha ! I use emacs as well and I never knew about this too. Will try it too. Thanks!