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: Re: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:06:49 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87pqe5k7ba.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87aa5fbale.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327644434 17596 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2012 06:07:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:07:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 27 07:07:09 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 1Rqexp-0000gC-Jj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:07:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rqexo-0005xU-QN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rqexj-0005xH-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rqexh-0007zS-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rqexh-0007zO-Mz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:07:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rqexg-0000ei-Cz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:07:00 +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 ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:07:00 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:07:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 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:rDCooXmBXXzU80fuPqsatg1aJJU= 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:83571 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Harry Putnam >> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:09 -0500 >> >> 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. > > It doesn't disappear for me, not in Emacs 24 anyway. I can click the > mouse in the minibuffer, then type C-y to paste something I copied > elsewhere. I can now too. Not sure what was causing my earlier trouble. I hope it is not what I suspect. I suspect I may have been pressing C-u C-s BEFORE copying with mouse somewhere. No, that would be too dumb .. eh? But, er, I think that might be it. Sorry for the line noise, and causing all the hallmarks of a row.