I have changed the binding to just `r' then.

I don't remember why I chose `r`, but I guess it stands for 'replace'.
As I am using evil, I prefer if the same bindings also work in evil,
without further configuration. However, `r` works perfectly fine for
both here, so it looks as a perfect alternative.

On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 23:37, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:

> dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Well, I am an evil (vim keybindings) user, and only know very few Emacs
> > default keybindings.
> > Also, I guess search functionality is not very important when simply
> > adjusting page numbers in a table of contents.
>
> One of the nice things about Emacs is that everything is a buffer and
> can be treated as text that you process just like any file or non-file
> buffer.  If someone wants to search a buffer, I consider it improper for
> a package to inhibit them from doing so.
>
> (I haven't checked, but I am guessing that C-r is supposed to be a
> mnemonic for "refresh"?  It would be more conventional to bind this to
> "g", that `special-mode' binds to `revert-buffer' -- this also means
> that you can just use `revert-buffer-function' directly instead.)
>
> > But suggestions for improvements are always welcome.
> >
> > On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 19:13, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 23:49, dalanicolai <dalanicolai@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > As mentioned in
> >> > the instructions for the tabular mode the contents of every field in
> >> tabular mode can be
> >> > updated by reading from the user through placing the cursor on the
> field
> >> and then pressing
> >> > C-r.
> >>
> >> Do you seriously rebind C-r away from isearch-backward?
> >>
>