Re: [PATCH] (Or "question"...) isearch-kill-found

[Christoph]

On 05/30/2010 09:25 AM, Drew Adams wrote:

> I proposed the feature to emacs-devel on 2007-07-10:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg00490.html
>
> The bottom line was Richard's decision:
>
>   "I don't think it is needed.  You can type C-@ C-r C-r to put
>   the region around the match that was just found."
>    
In that same thread Davis Herring had an idea that sounds interesting 
and useful to me:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg00492.html

>  Thinking about this, I realize
>  that I would get almost all the utility of this idea with just one command
>  added to isearch which meant "exit and move point to start of match", or
>  (closer to your idea) a command which meant "exit and drop mark at start
>  of match" in place of your toggle.  WDOT?


I think a function "exit and drop mark at start of match" would be very 
useful.

Christoph