Subject: bug#7787: 23.2; wrong meaning for mouse-2 while in search mode

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:55:04 +0200

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

>> The test case is to double-click a word, `C-s' and then `mouse-2' to
>> insert it.  With the patch, that's what happens.
>
> But only when mouse-yank-at-point is non-nil?

Yes.

> I still don't understand why allowing to yank by clicking anywhere in
> the buffer should depend on mouse-yank-at-point?  It allows yanking at
> point, but in isearch it yanks to the search string in the echo area.

When doing isearch, for the user it looks like point is down there --
that's where the input is apparently going, after all.  So giving the
yank result to isearch instead of inserting it where the mouse pointer
is is consistent and expected behaviour.

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