Re: PATCH: isearch-yank-until-char

[Juri Linkov]

>>> I like the idea, but would welcome even more warmly an isearch which
>>> yanks "whatever text is skipped by the next command" so it can be used
>>> to yank the next word, sexp, char, ...
>> A.k.a. isearch-yank-on-move.
>
> I was thinking of it more as a prefix command than a variable, but other
> than that, yes.

Do you think it could be a prefix command invoked before every motion
key sequence, or more toggle-like key to enable a isearch-yank-on-move mode?

>> Since there is no non-isearch global command to skip to the next char
>> that could be used by isearch-yank-on-move, a fictional command is needed
>> like this
>>
>>   (defun skip-to-char (arg char)
>>     (interactive "^p\ncSkip to char: ")
>>     (search-forward (char-to-string char) nil nil arg)
>>     (forward-char -1))
>
> Indeed,

But Karl's patch is still needed because there will be no global
zap-like command bound to C-M-c.