"Daniel R. Grayson" <danielrichardgrayson@gmail.com> writes:

> The attached file contains the string "end--" in two places.  When
> searching for that string with M-x isearch-forward (C-s) in that file,
> just after opening the file, starting from the top of the file, it
> often happens, that after positioning the cursor at the first "end" in
> the file, it displays "end-" on the mode line and then goes into an
> infinite loop, not responding to further input or making any further
> progress on the search.

I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 28.1 (on Debian/bookworm).  Is
this with "emacs -Q"?

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