From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:22:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87aa5fbale.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327299791 29668 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2012 06:23:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:23:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 23 07:23:07 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDJ4-0005TR-24 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:23:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDJ3-0001JA-6H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:23:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDIz-0001Ix-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDIx-0006XG-M8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDIx-0006XC-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:22:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDIx-0007sM-GP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:22:59 -0500 In-reply-to: <87aa5fbale.fsf@newsguy.com> (message from Harry Putnam on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:09 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83541 Archived-At: > From: Harry Putnam > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:09 -0500 > > I don't use the incremental regex search much but did have need of it > today. And repeatedly. I found it difficult to impossible to > copy/paste to the prompt. As soon as you move the mouse, the prompt > disappears. It doesn't disappear for me, not in Emacs 24 anyway. I can click the mouse in the minibuffer, then type C-y to paste something I copied elsewhere.