Re: [External] : Re: Simple isearch concerns

[Juri Linkov]

>> As you see from the discussion, adding a defcustom makes little sense,
>> because this feature might be needed only occasionally, so better
>> to be bound to a special key, e.g. C-RET to exit and move to other-end,
>> S-RET to exit and mark the found string as a region.
>
> In particular, I'm not in favor of adding keys for
> exiting + performing an action.

I meant that these keys can easily be bound by users.

> Better to add keys for toggling some search behavior, and leave
> exiting keys as they are.

In bug#39512 we already developed a command bound to 'M-s M-.'
to pull the active region to the search string.

Now we could add a command that sets the region from the search string.