I've found this little gem makes occur quite a bit more useful: 
(defun isearch-occur ()
  "Invoke `occur' from within isearch."
  (interactive)
  (let ((case-fold-search isearch-case-fold-search))
    (occur (if isearch-regexp isearch-string (regexp-quote isearch-str
+ing)))))

(define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-o") 'isearch-occur)

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Then you can isearch to the word you want, hit C-w to grab the rest of it, then C-o to get a list of occurrences.

In reply to Re^2: Emacs shows xrefs in code but needs an interface that's good for humans by educated_foo
in thread Emacs shows xrefs in code but needs an interface that's good for humans by diotalevi

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