Re: Isearch interaction model

[Juri Linkov]

>>> What backwards compatibility? The presence of individual history
>>> variables across major versions is not guaranteed.
>>
>> Maybe, but it'd be a pain if moving to  newer release lost all history.
>
> Of _isearch_? isearch history isn't something you care about keeping
> long-term. File history, sure. Not search.

Not true.  I customized isearch not to save unnecessary search strings
to the search history on exiting isearch, and an additional key C-RET
defines whether to exit with keeping the current search in the history
or not.  This way I have only frequently used search strings in the
search history saved to the desktop file to be reused later.  Some are
quite complex regexps that would be a waste of time to retype again.