From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 867@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#867: 23.0.60; isearch string not quoted in M-s h r
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:05:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BDC6A5.6090300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sksiqhu1.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
Chong Yidong wrote:
>> If you do for example
>>
>> C-s some. M-s h r
>>
>> then the search string from isearch is not quoted when
>> highlight-regexp gets it which means it will match for example
>> "something".
>
> I don't understand. How is this a bug?
C-s and then "some." just matches the string "some.". If it is converted
to a regexp without quoting it will also match "somet" and that was not
what the user wanted.
I think this worked before. Something went wrong when you (was it you?)
took care of the case insensitive problem.
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2008-09-02 22:54 bug#867: 23.0.60; isearch string not quoted in M-s h r Chong Yidong
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