GNU Emacs Manual - Search

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# Searching and Replacement

Like other editors, Emacs has commands for searching for occurrences of a string. The principal search command is unusual in that it is incremental; it begins to search before you have finished typing the search string. There are also nonincremental search commands more like those of other editors.

Besides the usual `replace-string` command that finds all occurrences of one string and replaces them with another, Emacs has a fancy replacement command called `query-replace` which asks interactively which occurrences to replace.

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