Re: Calling occur from within isearch

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > > Sometimes I think it would be good to call occur from within isearch.
> > > > Anyone else that thinks it would be good to be able to do so?
> > > This is possible with the following patch.  I'm still not sure
> > > whether it is better to quit isearch before calling occur or not.
> > > Anyway, it works without quitting isearch, and displays the results
> > > of occur in another window.
> > That is nice. I see no reason to end isearch, that is easy to do afterwards.
>
> Wouldn't it be more nice if the current search line was also highlighted
> in the *Occur* buffer in sync with the position in the original buffer?

Indeed it would IMO. That would make it easier to get an overview.

Since not everyone want more key bindings during isearch then maybe it 
could be an option so that users could easily turn on/off a binding for 
this? Would that be acceptable?