On 6/16/08, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>
> >>>> I think the key `C-x w' by its mnemonics would be more suitable for
> >>>> a command that writes to the file like `C-x C-w'.
> >>>>
> >>>> As the comment in hi-lock.el suggests to bind it rather to `C-z h',
> >>> I just want the key binding to be the same as I use outside of isearch.
> >>>
> >>> There were no global binding for `occur' so in that case I thought
> >>> `M-s o' was good, but in this case I would really prefer the same
> >>> binding inside isearch.
> >>
> >> `C-x w h' is not available until hi-lock.el is loaded, but `M-s h'
> >> is the pretty harmless and convenient key binding to keep the
> >> isearch highlighting permanent in the entire buffer.
> >
> > Yes, but I suggested adding `C-x w h' to global-map too. Is there any
> > reason not to do that? (It is useful, not dangerous and the binding seems
> > to be reserved.)
>
> I think it is better to reserve the global `C-x w' for more
> mnemonic commands (e.g. "write" or "window"), and rebind hi-lock
> keys to the search specific prefix key.


That idea seems good to me as long as a key for highlight-regexp is defined
in global-map.