Re: Too much pita to paste into incremental regex search

[Harry Putnam]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
>> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:07:09 -0500
>> 
>> 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.

I can now too.  Not sure what was causing my earlier trouble.  I hope
it is not what I suspect.

I suspect I may have been pressing C-u C-s BEFORE copying with mouse
somewhere.  No, that would be too dumb .. eh?

But, er, I think that might be it.

Sorry for the line noise, and causing all the hallmarks of a row.