Yanking regular expression to regular expression search minibuffer or to regular expression search / replace minibuffer

Yanking regular expression to regular expression search minibuffer or to regular expression search / replace minibuffer

[glen.d.scott]

   I have tried to yank to a regular expression search replace
minibuffer, and also to a regular expression search minibuffer with M-
y, but am not meeting with success.

   When I yank the text:
[^A-Z0-9_]

  to a regular expression search minibuffer with the shortcut M-y, the
text that is placed in the minibuffer to search for is the text:
\[\^A-Z0-9_]

(note the leading \ characters before the [ and before the ^
characters)

   When I try to yank the same regexp to the search replace
minibuffer, I get an error:
Previous command was not a yank

and the text does not get yanked into the minibuffer at all.

   What is the way to yank a regular expression into the regular
expression search minibuffer, or even better, into the search /
replace minibuffer?

Thanks,
Glen Scott

Re: Yanking regular expression to regular expression search minibuffer or to regular expression search / replace minibuffer

[Michael Heerdegen]

glen.d.scott@gmail.com writes:

>    I have tried to yank to a regular expression search replace
> minibuffer, and also to a regular expression search minibuffer with M-
> y, but am not meeting with success.
>
>    When I yank the text:
> [^A-Z0-9_]
>
>   to a regular expression search minibuffer with the shortcut M-y, the
> text that is placed in the minibuffer to search for is the text:
> \[\^A-Z0-9_]
>
> (note the leading \ characters before the [ and before the ^
> characters)
>
>    When I try to yank the same regexp to the search replace
> minibuffer, I get an error:
> Previous command was not a yank
>
> and the text does not get yanked into the minibuffer at all.
>
>    What is the way to yank a regular expression into the regular
> expression search minibuffer, or even better, into the search /
> replace minibuffer?
>
> Thanks,
> Glen Scott

I think M-e is what you are looking for.

Re: Yanking regular expression to regular expression search minibuffer or to regular expression search / replace minibuffer

[glen.d.scott]

> glen.d.sc...@gmail.com writes:
> >    What is the way to yank a regular expression into the regular
> > expression search minibuffer, or even better, into the search /
> > replace minibuffer?

On May 22, 5:53 am, Michael Heerdegen <ab...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> I think M-e is what you are looking for.

   Thank you Michael! You're right!

   When typing into the minibuffer for a regular expression search,
hitting M-e goes into an edit mode for the minibuffer where you can
use commands such as C-y to yank regular expressions (or anything
else).

   About my question on how to yank a regular expression into the
search / replace minibuffer, silly me! I missed the fact that the
minibuffer for search / replace directly allows one to use C-y to do a
yank. Once you've done the C-y, it is possible to use M-y to cycle
back through the kill ring (just like regular editing in a standard
buffer). No wonder emacs was giving me the "Previous command was not a
yank" error when trying to directly start with an M-y!!!