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bug#14729: 24.3.50; Isearch oddity


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#14729: 24.3.50; Isearch oddity
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:53:17 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> I expect that the fontification of the echo area reflects what is
> happening: that the whole search string ("buffer") is unmatched (not
> only the last "fer"), since the current search begins just after the
> last instance of "buf" in the buffer [1], and there is no match
> (neither full nor partial) of the current search string between that
> location and the end of the buffer.

`isearch-fail-pos' assumes that in a failed state of search
a shorter previous successful search string should be taken
as a basis for highlighting.  In this case, the last successful match
was "buf", so an appended suffix is highlighted as failed.





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