Pattern matches whole string only

Olivier Croquette <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.global.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi

When I search for a symbol using a regexp, the return values are the one
matching the WHOLE pattern, ie. "abc" won't match "XabcY", I have to search for
".*abc.*"

Is there any way to have the pattern also matching substrings?

Thanks,
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Olivier
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