Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 23:15:19 +0200
> 
> > Does it make sense to set the `isearch-move' property on some common
> > forward commands, e.g. `forward-char', `forward-symbol' &
> > `forward-word'. I just compiled and tried the latest master to test this
> > feature and it wasn't immediately obvious that I had to set the property
> > for those commands. I was confused because I expected the built-in
> > functions to work out of the box with this new feature.
> 
> Maybe better to put the `isearch-move' property on the common commands
> only when you customize `search-exit-option' to `move' like in this patch:

If this eventually is committed with the setter function, the doc
string should warn users that just setting the variable directly does
not do what they expect.  For the same reason, the setter should be a
function with a name, so it could be called from Lisp.

Thanks.