[comp.emacs.xemacs] Re: Yanking (Pasting) on Isearch

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Vin Shelton <acs at xemacs.org> quotes:

> Edward Wijaya <ewijaya at singnet.com.sg> wrote on Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:50:47
> -0000:
>> Hi everybody, I would like to know if it is possible to "yank" or
>> "paste" onto "isearch" prompt?

Sure, just press M-y.

You can also press RET immediately after entering isearch and you'll
get an editable prompt where normal yanking commands such as C-y work.
That prompt also allows you to access history of previous searches.

> Yes, with the function `isearch-edit-string'.  Last time I looked
> (XEmacs 21.4.4), somebody had commented out this function's binding
> in isearch.el.

I don't think that binding was ever "in".  It seems to be a creative
suggestion of what you might want to put in your `.emacs'.

> I suggest you put the above into your init file.  [As a matter of
> interest, the GNU Emacs binding for this function (which _is_
> enabled by default in GNU Emacs) is M-e.]

M-e is a bizarre binding because it's normally bound to
forward-sentence.  I expect motion commands to exit isearch, and
forward-sentence should be no exception.