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Re: Using paste in search


From: Stephen Berman
Subject: Re: Using paste in search
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:48:40 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:47:08 +0200 Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl> wrote:

> Sometimes I want to search on something I have in my yank-buffer. But when I
> give C-y in search mode, it puts the rest of the line where the cursor is
> in my search query. Is there a way to get the content of the yank-buffer
> into the search query?

If you're using Emacs 22, the typing M-e (or ESC-e) allows you to edit
the search string, including using C-y to yank.

Steve Berman





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