From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using paste in search Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:43:22 +0200 Message-ID: <466f056a$0$336$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> References: <466e335d$0$79139$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181684440 18976 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2007 21:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 12 23:40:38 2007 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 4.50) id 1HyE6Q-0004bK-J3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyE6O-00025N-0U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!transit4.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.8.0 Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.84.157.201 Original-X-Trace: 1181681002 news.xs4all.nl 336 [::ffff:213.84.157.201]:13054 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149391 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:44980 Archived-At: Stephen Berman wrote: >> Sometimes I want to search on something I have in my yank-buffer. But >> when I give C-y in search mode, it puts the rest of the line where the >> cursor is in my search query. Is there a way to get the content of the >> yank-buffer into the search query? > > If you're using Emacs 22, the typing M-e (or ESC-e) allows you to edit > the search string, including using C-y to yank. That works. Thanks.