bug#9185: 24.0.50; "C-s M-p" does not bring the tip of the search ring

[Juri Linkov]

> The current counter-intuitive behavior (which IMO should not have been
> qualified as a feature, but as a bug) has been bugging me for some
> time, as I'm sure will bug anyone that tries to navigate through the
> search ring.
>
> Juri, I guess you also want to get this fixed in the trunk.  Maybe if
> you chime in, Stefan will see the light ;).  I still can't understand
> his reluctance to fix this, and I seem to lack the credit/ability to
> convince him.

You exaggerate the importance of the problem.  When I noticed this small
inconsistency I still continued to use isearch without any inconvenience.
So the only reason to change it is for the consistency with `C-s M-e M-p'
that has its own problems.  The main problem is that when you retrieve
the previous search string with `C-s C-s', then typing `M-p' will not have
a visible effect, because `M-p' will retrieve the previous search string
and the same string is already used as the current search string.