<p>I use emacs for viewing and editing code and other text files. I wanted to know if there is a way to search forward or backward for text which is marked in the current buffer. Similar to what I can do in notepad or wordpad. As in can I mark some text in the buffer and do a C-s or C-r and be able to search with the marked text without actually typing in the whole search text? </p>

<p>Thank you,</p>

<p>Rohit</p>

Yes.
```
M-W
```
(to get a copy of the selected text)
```
C-s <RET> C-y <RET>
```
.  Then repeat
```
C-s
```
as needed.  Similarly for
```
C-r
```
.