Hello again,

Actually, the code below is broken. Allow me to try posting that
again. As mentioned before, this allows you to yank into the minibuffer
the word at point.

Really, what I want to know is, can this be done "out of the box" in Emacs?

Here's the code:

(defun badger-minibuffer-yank-word ()
"Insert into the minibuffer the word at point in the selected
window. If invoked outside of the minibuffer, throw an error.

A good way to use this function is to bind it to a key in
mini-buffer-local-map, like so:

(define-key
minibuffer-local-map (kbd \"C-w\") 'badger-minibuffer-yank-word)

If point is not at a word, throw an error."
(interactive)
(insert (save-excursion
(set-buffer (window-buffer (minibuffer-selected-window)))
(thing-at-point 'word))))
(define-key minibuffer-local-map (kbd "M-w") 'badger-minibuffer-yank-word)

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