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RE: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:43:43 -0800

> > I don't use the incremental regex search much but did have 
> > need of it today.  And repeatedly.  I found it difficult to
> > impossible to copy/paste to the prompt. As soon as you move
> > the mouse, the prompt disappears.
> 
> It doesn't disappear for me, not in Emacs 24 anyway.  I can click the
> mouse in the minibuffer, then type C-y to paste something I copied
> elsewhere.

Not if you click in a minibuffer on a different frame (which includes the case
of a standalone minibuffer).  A `switch-frame' event causes Isearch to be
cancelled.  See Emacs bug #10037.




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