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: How to copy the text in the minibuffer Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:49:51 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87vdsgz9o0.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <213c012d-2c80-4e2e-bbc7-d9405689cd74@p36g2000prp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232045450 16763 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 18:50:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:50:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 19:52:03 2009 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 1LNXJt-0006ob-Fa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:51:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNXIc-0000De-Nc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNXID-0000AK-Bf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:50:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNXIC-00008y-G6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43065 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNXIC-00008k-Bv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50116 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 1LNXIA-0003yA-TP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LNXI4-0004FD-25 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:50:04 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:50:04 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:50:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:01O8MFhvYMR+0Pg2/lgQNXf72QM= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:61372 Archived-At: Decebal writes: > Sometimes I have some text in the minibuffer that I would like to > copy, to paste it somewhere else. Is this possible? There may well be better answers but I often retrieve that sort of stuff buy switching to *Messages* buffer where most stuff that appears in minibuffer is also written and be copied normally. That is AsteriskMessagesAsterisk (in case your mail client uses the asterisks to make Messages bold)