Re: Leaving isearch-mode and keeping the highlite

[Lennart Borgman]

Juri Linkov wrote:

> > 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.
>  
Thanks, but that was not what I suggested. I suggested a key binding to 
leave the highlight after search. But maybe you just wanted to tell that 
it is possible to do this?

> 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.
>  
Yes, it seems useful to. It is kind of the same idea. I suppose you 
would not like this to be an option.