Re: Insert word at point in minibuffer

[Nick Sandow]

Hello again,

Actually, the code below is broken.  Allow me to try posting that 
again.  As mentioned before, this allows you to yank into the minibuffer 
the word at point.

Really, what I want to know is, can this be done "out of the box" in Emacs?

Here's the code:

(defun badger-minibuffer-yank-word ()
 "Insert into the minibuffer the word at point in the selected
window.  If invoked outside of the minibuffer, throw an error.

A good way to use this function is to bind it to a key in
mini-buffer-local-map, like so:

 (define-key
   minibuffer-local-map (kbd \"C-w\") 'badger-minibuffer-yank-word)

If point is not at a word, throw an error."
 (interactive)
 (insert (save-excursion
    (set-buffer (window-buffer (minibuffer-selected-window)))
    (thing-at-point 'word))))
(define-key minibuffer-local-map (kbd "M-w") 'badger-minibuffer-yank-word)

The Badger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to be able to insert the word at point into the minibuffer.  
> This is useful when doing, for example, M-x query-replace on the word 
> at point.  You run the query-replace, hit a key to put the current 
> word into the minibuffer, and go from there.  Quite often I want to do 
> this, so it saves time over typing the word in over and over.
>
> My solution is presented below.  However, can this be done out of the 
> box in Emacs?  The less custom code I have to write, the better.  God 
> knows I have enough of that in Emacs already.
>
>
> (defun badger-minibuffer-yank-word ()
>  "Insert into the minibuffer the word at point in the selected
> window.  If invoked outside of the minibuffer, throw an error.
>
> A good way to use this function is to bind it to a key in
> mini-buffer-local-map, like so:
>
>  (define-key
>    minibuffer-local-map (kbd \"C-w\") 'njs-buffer-yank)
>
> If point is not at a word, throw an error."
>
>  (interactive)
>  (insert (njs-call-in-buffer (lambda () (thing-at-point 'word))
>                              (window-buffer 
> (minibuffer-selected-window))))
>   (save-excursion
>     (set-buffer (window-buffer (minibuffer-selected-window)))
>     (thing-at-point 'word)))
> (define-key minibuffer-local-map (kbd "M-w") 
> 'badger-minibuffer-yank-word)