Re: repeat isearch-forward-regexp with just C-s C-s also

[Stefan Monnier]

>     OK, but to repeat the last regexp search, another ESC C-s C-s seems
>     too much to ask.  How about just C-s C-s?
> 
> I am not sure it is a good idea for C-s to do a regexp search.
> Repeating the last non-regexp search, which is what it does now,
> seems like the right thing to do.
> 
> But if users want to try it and report their opinions,
> I'd be interested in hearing about it.

I've been using a local patch which makes C-s C-s repeat the last search
(regexp or not) and I find it very useful.  The problem is that I find
M-C-s M-C-s significantly more difficult to hit than C-s C-s, so when
I need to repeat a search many times, C-s C-s is much better.
Another reason is that I rarely use M-C-s but instead I do
`C-s ..blabla.. M-r ..blibli' because I often notice "too late" that I want
a regexp search rather than a plain search, so almost all my regexp
searches are started with C-s rather than with M-C-s or C-u C-s.


        Stefan