Re: isearch region or thing at point.

[Juri Linkov]

>> > It would be good to "standardize" bindings - say
>> > reserve `M-w' (e.g. on a prefix key) for the
>> > "copy-region" (or similar) action
>> 
>> I remember you had a key to grab the region into the minibuffer.
>> This is what Ergus wants.
>
> I don't think this thread is about grabbing the region
> text into the minibuffer.  Ergus grabs it into Isearch
> as the search string.
>
> And I don't think I have a command that grabs the
> region into the minibuffer.

Maybe the same key, e.g. 'M-.' could be used to grab
the region into the search string, into the query-replace
prompt, or into the minibuffer?