Re: my search/paste idiom not supported in emacs

[Perry Wagle]

Its now http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7787

Thanks!

-- Perry


On Jan 2, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> In xemacs, if I double click on a word, the word is highlighted.  If I then
>> press control-s for search, and click the middle mouse button *without
>> moving the mouse*, I will paste that word into the search string, and all
>> is good.
> 
> I recommend you M-x report-emacs-bug (which is also used for feature
> requests).  It seems reasonable to give mouse-2 the meaning of "insert
> in the search string" rather than "insert in the current buffer".
> 
> 
>        Stefan