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: C-s, then yank / cua-paste Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:43:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118847272 2429 80.91.229.2 (15 Jun 2005 14:54:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 16:54:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZHG-0007tg-83 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:54:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZMU-0002tD-AZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZLq-0002hY-2L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZKR-0002Y3-BN for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DiZKO-0002Lo-Cb for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:57:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.230] (helo=agminet03.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DiZ8P-0007jh-UG for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet03.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agminet03.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j5FEhGmJ001848 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:43:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by agminet03.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j5FEhFbh001829 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:43:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j5FEhFPw014582 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:43:15 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id j5FEhE6S014577 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:43:15 -0600 Original-To: "Emacs help" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:27483 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27483 A lot of times I need to search for a string that I have just moved to the kill-ring (or, in my case, actually just the clipboard). So what I do is C-s, C-y, or C-s, H-v, where H-v is mapped to cua- paste. Neither variant gives me the expected result. Why can I not paste something into the minibuffer? Can I enable this somehow? C-h c C-s -> C-s runs the command isearch-forward C-h f RET isearch-forward RET isearch-forward is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `isearch'. ... ... Type M-y to yank last killed text onto end of search string and search for it. ...