bug#14742: 24.3.50; enhancement request: be able to prepend stuff from buffer when search backward

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> Stefan had some further comments about the amount of code left in
> isearch-other-meta-char, but since the code alters several variables
> local to that function, the proposed solution for that looked (to me) a
> lot less understandable than Juri's patch.
> 
> But it seemed like everybody agreed that the feature was good, so
> perhaps it should be applied now?  It probably needs some documentation,
> though.

Thanks for working on this.

From my point of view, separate, smaller changes are
better, as that will make it easier to adapt my code
in isearch+.el.  IOW, if this were done in stages,
especially any heavy refactoring, that would be helpful.

But any way it's done will be good.