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RE: [PATCH] (Or "question"...) isearch-kill-found
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: [PATCH] (Or "question"...) isearch-kill-found |
Date: |
Mon, 31 May 2010 21:43:46 -0700 |
> >> Of course I also dislike it because it adds a state. As for simply
> >> providing a variable to change the behavior (without a
> >> key-binding to change it), that's another solution, indeed.
> >> Maybe not a bad one.
>
> > Why is not having a key to toggle the variable better?
>
> Because keys are in very short supply.
Not really, for a keymap such as isearch.
> > It is the variable that "adds a state", not the toggle key.
>
> No: if the variable never changes, then it doesn't contribute
> to state.
;-)
If a variable (in the usual programming sense, not in the math sense) never
changes, then it's not very variable. Why have a variable in that case?