Incremental Search with marked text

Incremental Search with marked text

[Andrew C. Suttles]

If I mark a word by double clicking (yuck) the mouse, I can do an
incremental search for the word by using c-s m-y.  This 'yanks' the marked
word into the minibuffer as the target for the isearch.  However, when I
use m-@ to "mark word" and then try the same thing (c-s m-y) I get the
previously marked word and not the current one.  

What commands are invoked by a double click.  I tried using the
help-describe function, but it will only describe the first click, not a
double click.

Thanks

Re: Incremental Search with marked text

[Kai Großjohann]

"Andrew C. Suttles" <suttlesa@zianet.com> writes:

> If I mark a word by double clicking (yuck) the mouse, I can do an
> incremental search for the word by using c-s m-y.  This 'yanks' the marked
> word into the minibuffer as the target for the isearch.  However, when I
> use m-@ to "mark word" and then try the same thing (c-s m-y) I get the
> previously marked word and not the current one.  

You need to do M-w after marking the word with the keyboard.

The node in the info file is called "The Mark and the Region", I
think.  After C-h i d m Emacs RET you can type i to search in the
index, then enter "region".
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