Re: isearch region or thing at point.

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

Hi Eli:

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.

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).

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

On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 12:26:56PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 13:20:25 +0200
>> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
>> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> +@kindex M-w @r{(Incremental search)}
>> +@findex isearch-yank-region
>> +  @kbd{M-w} (@code{isearch-yank-region}) appends the text in the
>> +active region if @code{transient-mark-mode} is @code{non-nil}. This is
>> +an easy way to insert the text in the region without needing to exit
>> +@code{isearch-mode}. The region is deactivated during the search, but
>> +it is reactivated if the @code{isearch-cancel} is called.
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>Please leave 2 spaces between sentences in all documentation and
>comments.
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>> +       ;; set it to nil so that isearch's messages don't get timed out.
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>Comments should start with a capital letter.
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>Thanks.