From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:43:43 -0800 Message-ID: <00A036F48B024034991C000247C729ED@us.oracle.com> References: <87aa5fbale.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327301054 3757 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2012 06:44:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:44:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 23 07:44:10 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 1RpDdS-0003sa-Ed for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:44:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDdR-0004Ko-HL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:44:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49259) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDdM-0004Kb-Dc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:44:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDdH-0000Ls-9j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:31856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpDdF-0000LY-J9; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:43:57 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id q0N6hsko021572 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:43:56 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0N6hsWn029833 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:43:54 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q0N6hsCr019656; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:43:54 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.39.8) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:43:53 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AczZl3j8abDWEsU/RqK5MGxnQnHBwQAAoY1g X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090208.4F1D01AC.002B,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 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:83542 Archived-At: > > 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. Not if you click in a minibuffer on a different frame (which includes the case of a standalone minibuffer). A `switch-frame' event causes Isearch to be cancelled. See Emacs bug #10037.