Re: Word search

[Juri Linkov]

>>      But I doubt that many people use it because for many years of
>>      existence of word search, very few people tried to find a way to
>>      enable incremental word search (according to mailing list archives)
>>      until recently.
>>
>>  Maybe you're right.  But let's ask them.
>
> I never realized it was there.  I remember trying C-y hoping for that, but
> it inserts to the end of the line, something I never need.
>
> I would prefer to have bindings similar to normal editing: C-y to yank, but
> use M-y to insert the word at point, unless the previous command was yank.
> Makes it easier to remember.

We currently have:

C-w isearch-yank-word-or-char
C-y isearch-yank-line
M-y isearch-yank-kill

Do you propose this change:

C-w isearch-yank-word-or-char
M-y isearch-yank-word-or-char
C-y isearch-yank-kill

But where do you put `isearch-yank-line'?

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Juri Linkov
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