Re: add non-chord keys to repeat isearch

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Drew!

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:44:41AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
> I often repeat `C-s' (same search string), over and over and over.  You
> too, right?  Poor pinky.

Mine doesn't seem to mind at all.  But I know some do.

> (define-key isearch-mode-map [next]  'isearch-repeat-forward)
> (define-key isearch-mode-map [prior] 'isearch-repeat-backward)

> Duh! Why I never bothered to do that before, I dunno. I've been doing
> it forever in Framemaker (which doesn't have incremental search), but I
> never thought to do it for Emacs too. Blinded by habit, I guess.

> I propose that Emacs do the same thing out of the box.

> Someone (Richard?) will no doubt argue that he prefers to have `next'
> exit Isearch and move down a page, and similarly for alternative
> bindings one might propose here. And perhaps there will be other
> arguments against (I know some people just don't like adding bindings
> to `isearch-mode-map'). But to me this is a no-brainer (now that I
> think of it ;-)).

> WDOT?

Please don't.  These two keys are already used in Isearch Mode for
scrolling.  To see this, set `isearch-allow-scroll' to t.  Then <next>
and <prior> are handy keys for seeing more text around the match without
having to leave isearch and start again.

The same applies to any keys bound to commands which have the
`isearch-scroll' non-nil.

I can't think of any more suitable keys for this - maybe keypad-+/-, or
keypad-del/enter, but they're probably not reliably on all keyboards.
Sorry to be so negative.

> P.S. No removal of any bindings, just addition of these two.
> You can still use `C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s C-s' if you prefer.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).