From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using paste in search Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:48:40 +0200 Message-ID: <878xap1ulj.fsf@escher.local.home> 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 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181634595 28156 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2007 07:49:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:49:55 +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 09:49:50 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 1Hy18L-0003ce-0b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:49:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy18K-0001b5-Pu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy186-0001Xn-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy184-0001VW-MN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy184-0001VP-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hy183-00076K-OC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hy17a-0001qK-Ai for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:48:58 +0200 Original-Received: from i577bcbcc.versanet.de ([87.123.203.204]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:48:58 +0200 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i577bcbcc.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:48:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i577bcbcc.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:44910 Archived-At: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:47:08 +0200 Cecil Westerhof 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. Steve Berman