bug#6232: Suggestion for isearch: in backward search yank to front of search string

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2) Using the same keybindings make them easy to remember.
>>
>> 3) It does seem rather logical that the yanking is done at the other
>> end when search direction is reversed.
>
> It would be totally confusing behaviour.  Normal characters are always
> added at the end, so yanking should always behave the same.


I can see your point, but my gut feeling is perhaps not the same.

Also consider the 4th point I made:


> 4) Maybe more important: The marker in isearch that shows the
> direction will be at the position where the yanking is done. Or at
> least nearly. So the semantics is in a sense the same since yanking is
> done forward from that marker.


I any case I think it is important that the key sequences for adding
at the beginning and end of the search string are similar. There are 4
yank commands in isearch for adding at the end. How about adding shift
to these to add at the beginning?