RE: [External] : Re: Simple isearch concerns

[Drew Adams]

> >> 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.

I see; good.  I misunderstood, in that case.

> > 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.

I suggest a toggle for that: select or not.