RE: isearch region or thing at point.

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > (Note that we already give 2 bindings to
> > `isearch-toggle-case-fold', which we need not do.)
> 
> The other is isearch-toggle-char-fold.

Oops - my bad.  Eye-scanned too quickly.

> > It would be good to "standardize" bindings - say
> > reserve `M-w' (e.g. on a prefix key) for the
> > "copy-region" (or similar) action
> 
> I remember you had a key to grab the region into the minibuffer.
> This is what Ergus wants.

I don't think this thread is about grabbing the region
text into the minibuffer.  Ergus grabs it into Isearch
as the search string.

And I don't think I have a command that grabs the
region into the minibuffer.

What I have is a command that copies the current
search string to the kill ring.  See previous posts
in this thread.

I posted the code for the command, suggesting that
we add it to vanilla Emacs and bind it (as I do) to
`M-w'.  Here it is again (just rename prefix
`isearchp-' to `isearch-'):

(defun isearchp-kill-ring-save ()
  "Copy the current search string to the kill ring."
  (interactive)
  (kill-new isearch-string)
  (let ((message-log-max  nil))
    (message "Copied search string as kill"))
  (sit-for 1)
  (isearch-update))