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Is there any way to use "arrow-up" button to scroll in latest searched words immediately after using isearch-forward? For now, in order to use the "arrow-up" key for this purpose, I am first required to do either of the following things:

  1. M-p (mapped to isearch-ring-retreat in this context). Unfortunately my brain has limited capacity for remembering keyboard shortcuts, so I don't like this solution, "arrow-up" is more intuitive for me and I tend to remember it. Maybe I can bind the "arrow-up" key to isearch-ring-retreat only inside isearch context?
  2. By clicking the mouse on the isearch prompt that had opened. This is inconvenient as it requires to use the mouse. Maybe I can change some isearch properties so that this happens by default?

Thanks!

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OK, after further investigation I actually found a solution that seems to achieve what I was looking for. I added the following to my init.el:

(progn (define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "<up>") 'isearch-ring-retreat ) (define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "<down>") 'isearch-ring-advance ) )

Credit goes to http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_isearch_by_arrow_keys.html

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  • Welcome to Emacs, land of the free! If you don't like something, rebind it. Commented Nov 8, 2021 at 1:31

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