Re: faq.texi

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

>> - one key to bind to isearch-yank-line (not C-y)
>> - one key to exit isearch and yank (S-insert)
>
> Yeah, like I said: you ``consistently'' dislike both C-y and S-Ins in
> this context.  By contrast, what I said is if C-y does something,
> S-Ins should do the same.

The consistency I meant is for C-y and M-y to have the same non-isearch
meaning in isearch mode: for C-y to yank last killed text into the search
string, and for M-y to yank earlier kills into the search string.

But not all consistencies are equally good.  C-y is a bad keybinding for
isearch-yank-line, and making S-Insert consistent with a bad keybinding
makes things worse: it doesn't do what beginners expect (the initial
request was exactly about this, i.e. "I can't paste via Shift+Insert
or yank via C-y") and also it takes away a good keybinding from other
users to exit isearch and to yank with one key.

-- 
Juri Linkov
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