Using paste in search

Using paste in search

[Cecil Westerhof]

Sometimes I want to search on something I have in my yank-buffer. But when I
give C-y in search mode, it puts the rest of the line where the cursor is
in my search query. Is there a way to get the content of the yank-buffer
into the search query?

Re: Using paste in search

[Stephen Berman]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:47:08 +0200 Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl> wrote:

> Sometimes I want to search on something I have in my yank-buffer. But when I
> give C-y in search mode, it puts the rest of the line where the cursor is
> in my search query. Is there a way to get the content of the yank-buffer
> into the search query?

If you're using Emacs 22, the typing M-e (or ESC-e) allows you to edit
the search string, including using C-y to yank.

Steve Berman

Re: Using paste in search

[Mathias Häbich]

Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> Sometimes I want to search on something I have in my yank-buffer. But when I
> give C-y in search mode, it puts the rest of the line where the cursor is
> in my search query. Is there a way to get the content of the yank-buffer
> into the search query?

Try M-y instead. It yanks (pastes) the last entry of the kill-ring and 
does an instant search. At least it does for me (Emacs 21).

M-e C-y (as Steve wrote) works fine under Emacs 21, too.

HTH,
Mathias

Re: Using paste in search

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl> wrote:

> Sometimes I want to search on something I have in my yank-buffer. But when I
> give C-y in search mode, it puts the rest of the line where the cursor is
> in my search query. Is there a way to get the content of the yank-buffer
> into the search query?

M-y


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: Using paste in search

[Cecil Westerhof]

Stephen Berman wrote:
>> Sometimes I want to search on something I have in my yank-buffer. But
>> when I give C-y in search mode, it puts the rest of the line where the
>> cursor is in my search query. Is there a way to get the content of the
>> yank-buffer into the search query?
> 
> If you're using Emacs 22, the typing M-e (or ESC-e) allows you to edit
> the search string, including using C-y to yank.

That works. Thanks.

Re: Using paste in search

[Cecil Westerhof]

Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:

> Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Sometimes I want to search on something I have in my yank-buffer. But
>> when I give C-y in search mode, it puts the rest of the line where the
>> cursor is in my search query. Is there a way to get the content of the
>> yank-buffer into the search query?
> 
> M-y

Works. Thanks.