Re: faq.texi

[Miles Bader]

On 2/15/06, Richard M. Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>     Either way we should find a replacement keybinding for isearch-yank-line,
>     and this is not easy.
>
> Is it really useful?  C-w in a search is definitely useful, but I have
> never seen a use for C-y.  In general, a whole line of text is more
> than one needs to search for.

Maybe I'm weird, but I do tend to use C-y reasonably often in a
specific circumstance:  when i want to see how well two regions of
text match, I go to the beginning of one, and hit C-y until the search
fails; this could be done with C-w too but it's a lot more tedious for
big regions.

-Miles
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