Subject: bug#46469: [External] : bug#46469: 27.1; `isearch-del-char' should move point further back

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 05:42:05 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> CC: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:14:48 +0000
> Accept-Language: en-US
> 
> > If we are talking about personal preferences, then I suggest to make
> > your desired behavior an opt-in one by introducing a defcustom.  We
> > cannot change the behavior of isearch-del-char unconditionally if the
> > existing behavior is not a bug, but just something some users may not
> > like.
> 
> If we are talking about personal preferences
> (and I think that's the case), a user can just
> bind their preferred keys to their preferred
> commands in `isearch-mode-map'.

We were discussing a possible change to an existing commands.
Keybindings cannot change the commends to which they are bound.