Re: faq.texi

[Kevin Rodgers]

Romain Francoise wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> Thanks for your input!
>
> Frank Schmitt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Two questions I've been several times are:
>
>
> > "When I type C-s to search, I can't paste via Shift+Insert (or yank
> > via C-y). Why and what to do against it?"
>
>
> Er, I'm not sure what that means.  You mean paste whilst being in
> isearch?

Probably he does.  The Incremental Search node of the Emacs manual says:

   The character `M-y' copies text from the kill ring into the search
string.  It uses the same text that `C-y' as a command would yank.
`Mouse-2' in the echo area does the same.  *Note Yanking::.

> > "How does query-replace across line borders work?"
>
>
> Hmm, yeah, the manual explains that one must use C-q C-j to match
> newlines, but not in a very straightforward way.  Or did you have
> something different in mind?

I would suggest using query-replace-regexp instead of query-replace,
so that typing SPC while entering the regexp matches newlines as well
via search-whitespace-regexp (assuming the buffer has a sane syntax
table).

> > or on a similiar topic "How to prefix every line with text a"
>
>
> This one is covered already:
>
> (info "(efaq)Inserting > at the beginning of each line")
>
> Though it could be made more general.

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Kevin Rodgers