From: Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: my search/paste idiom not supported in emacs
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:18:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iitm4o$hsg$3@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BDEBC9BA-9102-4CB9-95D2-14FAC542AA39@mac.com
Perry Wagle wrote:
> In emacs, I double click on a word with mouse-1. This highlights it.
> If I then mouse-2, its pasted at the mouse cursor. No problem.
>
> But if I double click on a word, highlighting it, and press control-S,
> this starts a "dialog" at the bottom of the screen where *what you type
> is captured* to give it text to search for. But if you then press
> mouse-2, the search mode is *aborted*, and the highlighted text is
> pasted at the mouse cursor.
>
> I think the highlighted text should be pasted in the dialog at the
> bottom of the screen, which is already capturing keyboard events.
I think you're probably right. Could it be related to a thread I started
some months ago ("Yanking in isearch mode")? That whole area seems to
have some usability issues.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-09 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.4.1293700342.31316.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-30 9:35 ` my search/paste idiom not supported in emacs Joost Kremers
2011-01-03 4:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-05 8:56 ` Perry Wagle
2011-02-09 3:33 ` Perry Wagle
2011-02-09 9:18 ` Gary [this message]
2010-12-30 0:39 Perry Wagle
2010-12-30 9:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-12-30 16:23 ` Perry Wagle
2010-12-30 10:01 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-12-30 16:26 ` Perry Wagle
2010-12-30 15:36 ` Kenneth Goldman
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