Re: killing the result of isearch

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>]

> On Nov 7, 2017, at 16:07, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> I can sort of imagine that such a function might be useful, but in several decades of using Emacs, both writing code and prose, I've honestly never missed it.  What is your use case?

Acting on the matching string. Yank, kill, overwrite. Things that you can do in other editors where the result of a search is a selection.

> The closest I come is search and replace, so you could just replace with an empty string.

isearch
isearch-query-replace
C-w


> However, searching and then doing 'C-backspace' deletes the word found on my system.

Thank you, I guess that's what I was looking for.

It's confusing to have "delete" act where point is *not* (ie in the mini buffer).


Jean-Christophe Helary
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