Re: binding c-h in isearch

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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> It is difficult to remmeber all nice features of isearch.
> Would it be possible to bind c-h to isearch-mode-help in isearch?
>
> This is done in isearch+.el by Drew Adams.

I think you are right. Beside what Drew have I have a patch for this 
(which is part of my patches in the patched version of Emacs+EmacsW32).

However I have began to rethink how such help could be implemented. 
There are other rather similar cases. In tabkey2.el (see EmacsWiki) I 
also needed to implement some specific help. This is what I did there:

- When the user hits the help key (f1/C-h) a message saying:

  "Type a char for Emacs help. Or, wait for Tab completion help"

- If the response is k or c then specific keybindings valid during tab 
completion is shown.

This way the user can have access to both a specific help and the usual 
Emacs help.