Re: yank-match.el -- yank matches for a regexp from kill-ring

["Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>]

> ...
> (defun yank-match (re)
>   "Yank the first item in the kill-ring that contains a match for RE
> \(a regular expression\).  Set point and mark just as \\[yank] does.
>
> Repeated invocations with no intervening commands will run
> successively through the matches for RE in the kill-ring,
> replacing the previously-yanked text with the new match each
> time, without prompting for a new regular expression,
> ...

This sounds very handy. I cannot say I have been longing for such a
command, but now that I know it exist I will probably find uses for
it. Taking advantage of what is in the kill ring is something I have
mostly underestimated.

There isn't any other way to do this in standard Emacs, is it?