From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:44:27 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87aa5fbale.fsf@newsguy.com> <00A036F48B024034991C000247C729ED@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327329917 9592 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2012 14:45:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:45:17 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 23 15:45:13 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 1RpL8w-0000df-JO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:45:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54861 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpL8w-0003Kf-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpL8m-0003HN-6p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpL8g-00031V-9c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:45:00 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:26252) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RpL8U-0002z6-41; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:44:42 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.4) with ESMTP id q0NEidW3029241 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:44:40 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0NEicAT028408 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:44:39 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt109.oracle.com (abhmt109.oracle.com [141.146.116.61]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q0NEicEb029726; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:44:38 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.39.8) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:44:38 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AczZnJhJnFSzqFI1RyG1C1TNlivrggAO6CTA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.4F1D7258.0114,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 141.146.126.227 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:83545 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > Not if you click in a minibuffer on a different frame > > (which includes the case of a standalone minibuffer). > > A `switch-frame' event causes Isearch to be cancelled. > > See Emacs bug #10037. > > The OP didn't say anything that would imply he was using such > esoterica. Wow. Using more than one frame is "esoteric"? Is it also esoteric if you use `M-w' to copy text from a buffer in one frame and then use `M-y' (Emacs 24: `C-y') to yank it into Isearch in another frame? Or is it esoteric only if you use the mouse to do it? No, the OP did not say that he was using two frames, but I suggested it, as one possible explanation. And if I had to guess it would be that the OP did just that: search in a buffer in one frame, select text using the mouse from a buffer in another frame, then click mouse-2 to paste into the search string (in the first frame). That's the only explanation that I know of for the symptoms described. But perhaps there is another bug at work (besides #10037).