From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sandip Chitale" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: give C-s argument from kill ring Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:43:50 -0700 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40ef1197$0$23871$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <13883bbe.0406210542.90df925@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089409697 11319 80.91.224.253 (9 Jul 2004 21:48:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 09 23:48:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bj3E0-0001Z5-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 23:48:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bj3GC-0001XI-4V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:50:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.multikabel.nl!newshub2.home.nl!home.nl!sunsite.dk!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.135.53.4 Original-X-Trace: DXC=PelA>YSQJHiNC=2oJ9U:hfYSB=nbEKnkkP[12@c>4P\bkT@GP_Z>?djhdKRI?85hhjePnId6L[[1f3]E8F@; W4XiaCAZdL\:n9mkPgQaXdY^7b Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124216 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19548 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19548 "Paul W. Joireman" wrote in message news:ccmlbb$k5r$1@info1.fnal.gov... > Simon Strobl wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >how can I give C-s a string from the kill ring as argument? > > > >Simon > > > > Hi, > > Copy to the kill ring with M-w, perform a search with C-s, and copy the > previous > argument from the kill ring with M-y, not C-y. This worked on Emacs > 21.2.1 on Windows > and 21.1.1 under solaris. Don'y ask me why C-y doesn't work, I don't know. > Because C-y is bound to isearch-yank-line in isearch-mode-map Keymap for `isearch-mode'. > Paul >