Re: Isearch interaction model (was: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I believe we could arrive to this goal gradually by adding more isearch
  > features to query-replace, and query-replace features to isearch,
  > i.e. like digging a tunnel from both ends to meet in the middle.

I don't think we should try to go in that direction.
Query Replace and search are fundamentally different ideas
and trying to make them converge would make them incoherent.

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