<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:00 PM, aditya siram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aditya.siram@gmail.com" target="_blank">aditya.siram@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I'm working on a patch to evil where searching for a word with '/' allows me to stop at a partial match. <div><br></div><div>For example, given:</div><div>"The wor^d I am looking for is abcd".</div>
<div>where '^' represents point, if I type '/' 'abce', 'abc' is highlighted. When I hit RETURN or C-g I want point to go to the beginning of that partial match and not jump back to where my search started. </div>
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</blockquote></div><br>It sounds like the wrong behavior to me, because "abce" doesn't match "abc". I probably misunderstood you.<br><br>