Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design

[Richard Stallman]

    > FWIW: Several people have expressed this idea, with which I agree.
    > C-u should do nothing by itself (and that includes not exiting
    > Isearch, of course).  Its only effect should be to provide a prefix
    > argument to the next command, to extend its behavior.

    I tend to agree.

This reasoning is based on thinking of Isearch as a kind of a mode,
but that's exactly what we should avoid.


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/