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Summary

You have now learned enough ways to search for text in one buffer for much of your future work. You have also learned how to replace one text string with another in one file. In Hour 9, you will learn an even more advanced mechanism called regular expression searches. In that hour, you will, of course, also learn what regular expressions are all about. As you might have noticed, several of the commands seen in this hour do, in fact, support regular expressions; therefore, after you read Hour 9, it might be a good idea to return here and review what you have learned.

Sometimes, however, it is not enough to have the capability to search for text in one buffer. You might, for example, want to find a definition of a function that might be in one of several files, or you might want to find a document where you wrote about a given topic. Hour 8 teaches you many of the ways you can search for text spread over several files.

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Sections in this Hour: Incremental Search Summary Searching for Words Q&A Search and Replace Exercises Listing Lines that Match a Pattern		Previous SectionNext Section

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