Re: isearch-query-replace-regexp and stuff

[David Kastrup]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> > C-M-s is quite hard to type, and if someone still decided to type it,
> > this means only that it was typed with the intention to start a
> > regexp search.
> 
> Exactly!
> 
> The current behavior of C-M-s to repeat the non-regexp search is not
> the most reasonable one.  More correct would be to switch the search
> to regexp mode before doing the search again.  I guess it works now
> that way because it was simpler to implement and nobody cared about
> handling this case specially.  But we could change the behavior of
> C-M-s in non-regexp mode to switch to regexp mode for consistency
> with C-M-%.

But that's inconsistent with being able to use both C-s and M-C-s in
regexp searches.

Don't you see that?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum