Subject: Re: bug#22589: 25.0.90; First match found by isearch-forward-symbol is not necessarily a symbol.

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:19:42 +0100

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hmm, this is strange.  Unlike the more radical patch in
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/25562#22, the latest patch here in
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/22589#31 is more moderate - it just restricts
> matches to word beginnings, so your recipe didn't fail when I tried.

My fault indeed.  Because the patch didn't apply with any Emacs tool, I
had applied it "by hand", but that in a wrong way.

Looks ok now after just calling "patch", and the behavior also seems to
make sense.  Sorry about the confusion.

Michael.