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> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:21:30 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > If "baud-rate" is what bothers you, we can augment the name or
> > documentation to explain when this is useful and why.
> 
> It could be useful, to avoid that others are left wondering like me.
> OTOH, anyone can now search the emacs-devel archives and find your
> explanation.

Perhaps to prevent any future confusion, we could make the slow
isearch mode dependent on something other than baud-rate?  Like have
some customizable variable or somesuch?  If implemented in a
backward-compatible manner, that could be good progress, I think.