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They’re not exactly the same as both use a different window, whereas Smart Scan simply finds the next/prev match without any prompts or windows or other distractions.

Good tip though!

Mickey.

An other useful tip that I uses often when coding is to remove/delete text between two delimiters, let say [], , “” or () .. I will post the lisp code (I’m sure it could be done in few lines but my lisp skills are limited).

;; returns the enclosing character for the character “c”
(defun get-enc-char (c) (cond
((string= c “(“) “)”)
((string= c “[") "]“)
((string= c “{“) “}”)
((string= c “>”) “<")
((string= c "”)
((string= c “‘”) “‘”)
((string= c “\”") “\”")
(t nil)
)
)

(defun delete-enclosed-text ()
“Delete texts between any pair of delimiters.”
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(let (p1 p2 mychar)
; look for one of those characters and store the cursor position
(skip-chars-backward “^()[]\’\”><{}") (setq p1 (point))
; store the char at this point, look for its enclosed char and advance
; the cursor newly (this done to avoid the cases when the char and
; its enclosed-char are the same like " or ' chars.
(backward-char 1) (setq mychar (thing-at-point 'char)) (forward-char 1)
; look forward for the enclosed char
(skip-chars-forward (concatenate 'string "^" (get-enc-char mychar))) (setq p2 (point))
; only delete the region if we found the enclosed character
(if (looking-at "[\]\}\"\'\)]”) (kill-region p1 p2)))))

The article is awesome, very comprenhensive and easy to read. Kudos!