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Hi Carl,

"CarlC" <carlc@snowbd.com> writes:
> On a related subject, what is the name of the variable that stores
> this last search string? I want to be able to save this for each
> file from session.el.

Looking at isearch.el and a bit of testing suggests that the variables
search-ring and regexp-search-ring contain the relevant history of
searches.  These variables are not buffer-local.  They are saved by
desktop.el.

Hope this helps, benny