GNU bug report logs - #36260
27.0.50; isearchb should be reimplemented without iswitchb

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36260: 27.0.50; isearchb should be reimplemented without iswitchb
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 22:52:10 -0400

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  > Yup; those are also solutions, but apparently the maintainers think that
  > iswitchb isn't very useful anymore, but people still use isearchb,
  > apparently.

It seems that iswitchb is still useful for one thing: running isearchb.
Thus, in fact it is not obsolete.

I suggest de-obsoleting iswitchb, unless and until someone 
fixes isearchb not to use it any more.

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