Re: Recentish C-s M-y change

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I imagine C-s M-y was chosen for consistency with the usual M-y binding?

"Consistency" is not quite correct.  I used M-y for this because (1)
the operation is comparable to yanking and (2) the usual binding of
M-y was never useful after C-s.

In recent years, we have given several control characters a
special meaning after C-s.  Most of those special meanings are not
useful for me, but there were some that I used to type often
to exit the search.  Now that no longer works.

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