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

[Drew Adams]

> > The alternative that I proposed does not affect any keys that exit
> > isearch - you exit it normally, any way you want.  What it does do
> > is leave the mark-setting on or off until you toggle it, with
> > `C-SPC' during isearch.
> 
> Eh.... it *does* affect a key that exits isearch: C-SPC.

Yes. I should have said only that you need not exit specially to get the marking
behavior.

> 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?
It is the variable that "adds a state", not the toggle key.