Re: killing the result of isearch

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2017-11-07, at 07:01, Jean-Christophe Helary 
<jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:

> But, isn't it something emacs users do normally? Search for a string and just 
> delete it? Doesn't it look like a function that could be useful in vanilla 
> emacs?

How about this?

C-s whatever M-% RET .

Explanation: when in isearch, typing M-% starts query-replace
prepopulated with isearched string.  RET makes the replacement empty.
`.' (period) performs a replacements and exits query-replace.

Hth,

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Marcin Borkowski