Re: Yanking regular expression to regular expression search minibuffer or to regular expression search / replace minibuffer

[Michael Heerdegen]

glen.d.scott@gmail.com writes:

>    I have tried to yank to a regular expression search replace
> minibuffer, and also to a regular expression search minibuffer with M-
> y, but am not meeting with success.
>
>    When I yank the text:
> [^A-Z0-9_]
>
>   to a regular expression search minibuffer with the shortcut M-y, the
> text that is placed in the minibuffer to search for is the text:
> \[\^A-Z0-9_]
>
> (note the leading \ characters before the [ and before the ^
> characters)
>
>    When I try to yank the same regexp to the search replace
> minibuffer, I get an error:
> Previous command was not a yank
>
> and the text does not get yanked into the minibuffer at all.
>
>    What is the way to yank a regular expression into the regular
> expression search minibuffer, or even better, into the search /
> replace minibuffer?
>
> Thanks,
> Glen Scott

I think M-e is what you are looking for.