From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Adler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: yank buffer in gnus Date: 10 Aug 2007 10:26:15 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186761033 22554 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2007 15:50:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:50:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 10 17:50:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJWkt-0006ZN-1o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IJWks-0008Ss-JK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:50:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: nestle.csail.mit.edu Original-X-Trace: 1186755976 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 497 128.30.16.13 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150900 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:50:07 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46480 Archived-At: The n key on my laptop is broken and I am trying to manage with emacs commands and cut and paste. In reading gnus in emacs, with all the groups displayed, I sometimes will type something like ctrl-s misc.consumers to place myself at the group misc.consumers, but without the n key, I can only type ctrl-s misc.co To add the n in emacs, I use ctrl-k to put an n in the yank buffer and yank it out when I need it. If I try to do this while I am in gnus, with all the groups displayed, instead of adding the n after the o, it will add the name of the group on whatever line the cursor is on. So, being in the buffer of groups and trying to use the minibuffer to search somehow deprives me of the ability to recover the n from the yank buffer. When I leave gnus or when I actually post something or send email, the yanked n works fine. How can I get emacs to yank the n while I'm trying to type ctrl-s misc.consumers ? -- Ignorantly, Allan Adler * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.