Re: Yanking isearch to highlight-regexp

[Juri Linkov]

>>> It would probably also be
>>> useful to go directly from an isearch into highlight-regexp. How
>>
>> You mean in the same way as C-M-% has a special binding in isearch?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I guess that would make a lot of sense, except that highlight-regexp
>> doesn't have any keybinding,
>
> Now, I don't even need this feature because I use highlight-regexp
> very seldom so I am not arguing, but generally speaking, why is it a
> problem if we wanted to add this even though highlight-regexp has no
> default keybinding? Is it because having no default keybinding implies
> that a command is not very much used (by most users)?

This usually means there are no more free keybindings :-)

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Juri Linkov
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