I don't know, but I personally dislike that keybinding because I often have terms I'd like to search for in the kill-ring and cannot yank them.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Gary .
<help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name> wrote:
What *should* C-y do if one is at the I-Search prompt, please? At the
moment it seems to yank the "word" under the cursor. Has this
behaviour changed recently, maybe from 23.1 to 23.2?
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