Re: automatic search/search and replace for a marked string

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

> lichtkind <lichtkind3@web.de> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have marked a string. Now I want to search for this string in the
> > whole text. I know that I can search with C-R or C-S. and type in the
> > searchstring. I'm looking for a way, that the marked string is
> > automatic the searchstring. This should also work for the other
> > search/ search and replace types.
>
> M-w C-s M-y
>
> You would normally paste (yank) with C-y, but strangely in the C-s
> minibuffer, you have to use M-y.

There's also some relevant stuff in Isearch Yanking: (info  
"(emacs)Isearch Yank"))

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> __Pascal Bourguignon__