Re: killing the result of isearch

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Nov 7, 2017, at 16:07, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> I can sort of imagine that such a function might be useful, but in several 
> decades of using Emacs, both writing code and prose, I've honestly never 
> missed it.  What is your use case?

Acting on the matching string. Yank, kill, overwrite. Things that you can do in 
other editors where the result of a search is a selection.

> The closest I come is search and replace, so you could just replace with an 
> empty string.

isearch
isearch-query-replace
C-w


> However, searching and then doing 'C-backspace' deletes the word found on my 
> system.

Thank you, I guess that's what I was looking for.

It's confusing to have "delete" act where point is *not* (ie in the mini 
buffer).


Jean-Christophe Helary
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