From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:09 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87aa5fbale.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327273662 22789 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2012 23:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:07:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 23 00:07:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rp6Vc-0000bm-Ih for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:07:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rp6Vc-0004m7-0e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rp6VX-0004lr-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rp6VW-0007Mi-I2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60357) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rp6VW-0007MM-Cw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rp6VS-0000X5-7O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:07:26 +0100 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:07:26 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:07:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZFdBVNt66Vl7tL+OS6B0xDM23G8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83538 Archived-At: I don't use the incremental regex search much but did have need of it today. And repeatedly. I found it difficult to impossible to copy/paste to the prompt. As soon as you move the mouse, the prompt disappears. There must be some handier way to do that? I switched to M-x search-forward-regex, and that does the job, but still why do we make it so difficult to copy/paste to the incremental regex search?