Re: Yanking isearch to highlight-regexp

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > I think the key `C-x w' by its mnemonics would be more suitable for
> > > a command that writes to the file like `C-x C-w'.
> > >
> > > As the comment in hi-lock.el suggests to bind it rather to `C-z h',
> > I just want the key binding to be the same as I use outside of isearch.
> >
> > There were no global binding for `occur' so in that case I thought
> > `M-s o' was good, but in this case I would really prefer the same
> > binding inside isearch.
>
> `C-x w h' is not available until hi-lock.el is loaded, but `M-s h'
> is the pretty harmless and convenient key binding to keep the
> isearch highlighting permanent in the entire buffer.

Yes, but I suggested adding `C-x w h' to global-map too. Is there any 
reason not to do that? (It is useful, not dangerous and the binding 
seems to be reserved.)