Re: Can't isearch for non-ASCII text

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (text-read-only)
>>> read-from-minibuffer(#("Search: " 0 8 (read-only t face 
>>> minibuffer-prompt))...
>>> byte-code(...
>>> isearch-edit-string()
>>> isearch-exit()
>>> call-interactively(isearch-exit)

>> This seems to indicate a bug elsewhere.
>> This backtrace is not enough to pin it down.  Maybe a C backtrace would be
>> more enlightening.

> I'm not skillful with C debugging and don't know how to break
> the program by such an error, sorry.  But the cause of the problem
> is obvious now; that is, Fread_minibuf tries to put some text
> properties to the prompt string even if it has the read-only
> property.  Although I'm not quite sure this should really be
> fixed, the attached patch makes the following program work with
> no error.

Thanks I ended up with the same diagnostic and have installed a similar fix.


        Stefan