Re: isearch C-o patch (post-freeze resubmission)

[Richard Stallman]

    However, I would much rather change the behaviour of C-w so that it
    copies a `word' if it is on a `word character' and a single character
    otherwise.  Then I could C-w C-w C-w to copy  word+=  into the
    minibuffer  (and use backspace if I got too much).

This seems like an idea worth trying.  Would you like to do it?