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Re: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search |
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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:01:35 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:44:27 -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.
> >
> > The OP didn't say anything that would imply he was using such
> > esoterica.
>
> Wow. Using more than one frame is "esoteric"?
No. But using minibuffer frames is.
> Is it also esoteric if you use `M-w' to copy text from a buffer in one frame
> and
> then use `M-y' (Emacs 24: `C-y') to yank it into Isearch in another frame?
This works for me.
Re: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search, Harry Putnam, 2012/01/27