Subject: Re: bug#32990: 26.1.50; isearch-forward + t-m-m/mark-active doc

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:07:59 +0300

> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 19:58:15 +0200
> From: [email-masked] (Charles A. Roelli)
> 
> Another small change for emacs-26:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/isearch.el b/lisp/isearch.el
> index 3725779..7833a7b 100644
> --- a/lisp/isearch.el
> +++ b/lisp/isearch.el
> @@ -719,6 +719,10 @@ isearch-forward
>  If you try to exit with the search string still empty, it invokes
>   nonincremental search.
>  
> +Exiting pushes the mark where point was before the search
> +started, unless `transient-mark-mode' is on and the mark is
> +active.
> +

Are you sure this is important to say there?  The doc string of that
function is already way beyond annoyingly long.

I'd actually encourage the opposite trend: make the doc string
shorter, and tell users to read the manual for more details.