Re: C-s, then yank / cua-paste

[Harald Joerg]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

> A lot of times I need to search for a string that I have just moved
> to the kill-ring (or, in my case, actually just the clipboard).
> So what I do is C-s, C-y, or C-s, H-v, where H-v is mapped to cua-
> paste. Neither variant gives me the expected result.
>
> Why can I not paste something into the minibuffer?
> Can I enable this somehow?

Try   C-s <RET> C-y   or   C-s M-y

C-s is usually bound to isearch-forward, which has its own mode map
for non-printing characters like C-y (C-h k C-s for details).
-- 
HTH,
haj