GNU bug report logs - #22285
isearch and repeat do no play well together (overlays are not cleared after repeating isearch-forward-exit-minibuffer)

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
Cc: 22285 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22285: isearch and repeat do no play well together (overlays are not cleared after repeating isearch-forward-exit-minibuffer)
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 02:12:44 +0100

severity 22285 minor
found 22285 27.0.50
thanks

Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com> writes:

> I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug, or as a simple
> incompatibility: using `repeat' to run
> `isearch-forward-exit-minibuffer' confuses isearch.
>
> Recipe: After starting emacs -Q with the following text and running
>the following commands, isearch is not active but its overlays are
>still visible:
>
>     abcdef
>     abcdef
>     abcdef
>     abcdef
>
>     C-s b C-s C-x z C-f
>
> The second C-s is not entirely necessary: C-s b C-x z C-f also fails to clear isearch's overlays 

I can reproduce this using the above recipe on Emacs 27.1.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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