From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: looking for: query-replace with a "yank-word" binding ala isearch Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 10:10:22 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DCBEFFE.2030202@ihs.com> References: <2bd747c7.0211072024.1619ac84@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036776687 17314 80.91.224.249 (8 Nov 2002 17:31:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ACyc-0004Uz-00 for ; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 18:31:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18ACxk-0006pC-00; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 12:30:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1036775412 10632059 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106847 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3401 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3401 bigfaceworm wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had a yank-word binding for query-replace > similar to the C-w binding for isearch-forward. > > I tried defining my own, but because the control switches to the > minibuffer, I'm not sure how to find the buffer in which to do: > > (buffer-substring (point) (progn (forward-word 1) (point))) Try wrapping that in (save-excursion (set-buffer (window-buffer minibuffer-scroll-window)) ...) -- Kevin Rodgers