From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: my search/paste idiom not supported in emacs Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:18:16 +0100 Message-ID: References: <27ED27CE-8CAC-45AC-A1E1-8253FF9580DD@mac.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297243276 25877 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2011 09:21:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:21:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 09 10:21:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pn6Ea-0007N3-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:21:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pn6EZ-0008Fx-Dj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55673 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pn6DX-0008FK-S8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pn6DW-0007ak-1R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pn6DV-0007aT-Qu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pn6DV-0006RG-6Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:20:05 +0100 Original-Received: from ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net ([213.160.40.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:20:05 +0100 Original-Received: from help-gnu-emacs by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:20:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: Yes Mail-Copies-To: never X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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 X-Gmane-Expiry: 2011-02-23 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79045 Archived-At: 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.