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

[Drew Adams]

> >> 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?