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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c05::230 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114765 Archived-At: > On Nov 7, 2017, at 16:07, Loris Bennett = wrote: >=20 > 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 ----------------------------------------------- @brandelune http://mac4translators.blogspot.com