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  <tmdoc-title|Search and replace>

  You can start searching text by pressing <key|C-s> or <menu|Edit|Search>.
  During a search, the ``search string'' is displayed at the left hand side
  of the footer. Each character you type is appended to this search string
  and the next occurrence of it is surrounded by a red box. When pressing
  <key|C-s> a second time during a search, the next occurrence is being
  searched. A beep indicates that no more occurrences were found in the
  document; pressing <key|C-s> will continue the search at the beginning of
  your document. You may press <key|<key-backspace>> in order to undo key
  presses during a search.

  Usually, text is being searched for in a forward manner, starting from the
  current cursor position. You may also search backwards, using <key|C-r>.
  During a search, only text in the same mode and the same language will be
  found, as those which are active at the position where you started your
  search. In other words, when searching an <with|mode|math|x> in math-mode,
  you will not find any x's in the ordinary text. As a current limitation,
  the search string can only contain ordinary text and no math-symbols or
  more complicated structured text.

  A query replace is started by pressing <key|C-=> or <menu|Edit|Replace>.
  You are prompted for a string which is to be replaced and the string by
  which to replace. At each occurrence of the string to be replaced you are
  prompted and you have to choose between replacing the string (y), not
  replacing it (n) and replace this and all further occurrences (a). Like in
  the case of searching, the query-replace command is mode and language
  sensitive.

  The current search and replace system is still quite rudimentary in the
  sense that it only deals with plain text in a simple way. In the future, we
  plan to implement a more powerful search and replace mechanism for
  structured text.

  For the time being, you may nevertheless search and replace arbitrary
  document fragments as follows: somewhere inside your document or another
  window, select the fragment you want to search using <menu|Edit|Copy
  to|Search>. Next hit <key|C-s> twice or more in order to search all
  occurences of this fragment inside your document. Similarly, using
  <menu|Edit|Copy to|Replace>, you may select a second fragment by which you
  want to replace the first one. In order to start the replacement,
  hit<nbsp><key|C-=> and specify the empty string as the arguments for
  ``<localize|Replace>'' and ``<localize|Replace by>''.

  <tmdoc-copyright|1998--2002|Joris van der Hoeven>

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  Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
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