C-s, then yank / cua-paste

C-s, then yank / cua-paste

[David Reitter]

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?

Thanks.

Re: C-s, then yank / cua-paste

[Harald Joerg]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

Try   C-s <RET> C-y   or   C-s M-y

C-s is usually bound to isearch-forward, which has its own mode map
for non-printing characters like C-y (C-h k C-s for details).
-- 
HTH,
haj

Re: C-s, then yank / cua-paste

[Martin Steer]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

M-y yanks the last killed item onto the end of the search string. Is
that what you're looking for?

-- 
Martin

RE: C-s, then yank / cua-paste

[Drew Adams]

    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'.

 ... <lots of interesting stuff deleted>...

Type M-y to yank last killed text onto end of search string and search for
it.

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Re: C-s, then yank / cua-paste

[David Reitter]

> M-y yanks the last killed item onto the end of the search string. Is
> that what you're looking for?

Thanks, that works indeed.
I use cua-mode, however, and I have H-v bound to cua-paste.

Cua-paste, however, doesn't paste into the minibuffer. And since I  
want to use the interapplication clipboard for this, I need to go  
through cua-paste.

Any ideas?

- D

Re: C-s, then yank / cua-paste

[Jason Rumney]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

> Cua-paste, however, doesn't paste into the minibuffer. And since I
> want to use the interapplication clipboard for this, I need to go
> through cua-paste.

You'll need to add that mapping to isearch-mode-map. Unlike most
keymaps, it does not inherit from global-map.