Re: Leaving isearch-mode and keeping the highlite

[Juri Linkov]

> I would find it very helpful to be able to leave isearch-mode but keep 
> the highlite. Is this something other would find helpful too?

There is already such an option: `lazy-highlight-cleanup'.
When nil, highlighting is not removed after the search.
You can use `M-x lazy-highlight-cleanup' to manually remove it.

> It is of course a new feature, but it can possible not break anything 
> (except isearch highliting but that is easy to check). It we want this I 
> would suggest to put it on C-RET or S-RET in isearch-mode-map.

BTW, I use C-RET to exit the search without pushing the search string
into the search ring.  Very useful to not stuff the search history
with unnecessary search strings.

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Juri Linkov
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