yank in search minibuffer doesn't yank

[David Reitter]

Yank in the search mini-buffer doesn't work.

Test case: select some text to copy it, then do C-s C-y.
Result: the text from point to the end of the current line gets  
pasted into the minibuffer, but not the saved text.




In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0)
of 2005-10-29 on rodrigues.inf.ed.ac.uk
X server distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.4.2
configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> M-v <help-echo>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-y <home> <home> <home> <mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1>
<double-mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> C-y <return>
C-s C-y <up> <up> <down> C-s C-h k C-y <help-echo>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <double-down-mouse-1> <double-mouse-1>
C-s C-y <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re
port-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading encoded-kb...done
call-interactively: Beginning of buffer
Mark set [2 times]
Mark saved where search started
Loading help-mode...done
Loading help-fns...done
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  C-M-v to scroll the help.
Mark saved where search started
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