From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Perry Wagle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: my search/paste idiom not supported in emacs Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:56:53 -0800 Message-ID: <27ED27CE-8CAC-45AC-A1E1-8253FF9580DD@mac.com> References: 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 1294217919 22790 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 08:58:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 09:58:35 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaPCT-00080S-8F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:58:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaPCR-0000RX-RY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:58:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53437 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaPB4-00009O-0w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaPB3-0006QP-Pf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from asmtpout025.mac.com ([17.148.16.100]:42922) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaPB3-0006QH-KI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from tuple.home ([173.50.157.237]) by asmtp025.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LEJ007K5KUT4JF0@asmtp025.mac.com> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:56:54 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-01-05_04:2011-01-05, 2011-01-05, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1010190000 definitions=main-1101050004 In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:78208 Archived-At: Its now http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7787 Thanks! -- Perry On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> In xemacs, if I double click on a word, the word is highlighted. If I then >> press control-s for search, and click the middle mouse button *without >> moving the mouse*, I will paste that word into the search string, and all >> is good. > > I recommend you M-x report-emacs-bug (which is also used for feature > requests). It seems reasonable to give mouse-2 the meaning of "insert > in the search string" rather than "insert in the current buffer". > > > Stefan