RE: isearch region or thing at point.

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> This patch has changed a lot because some others made suggestions I
> considered useful. I will attach the new patch in another mail.
> 
> On the other hand it makes sense that M-w should be used in case the
> user wants to add the text in the minibuffer to the kill-ring.
> (Something like isearchp-kill-ring-save)
> 
> So maybe M-r (region) or M-i (insert) must be used for what I propose
> and Drew may add the isearch-kill-ring-save function he wrote and bind
> it to M-w. That way there will be all the copy functionalities in place.

I would prefer that, yes.  `M-w' to copy to the
kill-ring (as usual).

Do you need an actual patch to include the command
I sent, or can you please just include it (renaming
prefix `isearchp-' to `isearch-')?

> But then we must recommend bind M-r or M-i (or whatever) for similar
> functionalities. And if possible correct other modes to be consistent
> with that (if that does not start a religious war here please).

Sorry, I don't know what you mean, there.  `M-r' is
(and has long been) `isearch-toggle-regexp'.

> I will try to do the same for replace-like commands.

(Not sure what you mean by that, either.)