RE: C-s, then yank / cua-paste

[Drew Adams]

    A lot of times I need to search for a string that I have just moved
    to the kill-ring (or, in my case, actually just the clipboard).
    So what I do is C-s, C-y, or C-s, H-v, where H-v is mapped to cua-
    paste. Neither variant gives me the expected result.

    Why can I not paste something into the minibuffer?
    Can I enable this somehow?

C-h c C-s -> C-s runs the command isearch-forward

C-h f RET isearch-forward RET

isearch-forward is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `isearch'.

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Type M-y to yank last killed text onto end of search string and search for
it.

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