GNU bug report logs - #25114
24.5; doc of `isearch-search-string' should say it returns nil if STRING not found

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 23:00:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in versions 26.1, 25.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 25114 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 25114 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#25114: 24.5; doc of `isearch-search-string' should say it
 returns nil if STRING not found
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:16:18 -0700 (PDT)

> > Some of the Isearch code (e.g. `isearch-lazy-highlight-search')
> > uses the return value of `isearch-search-string' as a Boolean value.
> > The doc string should say that it returns nil if STRING is not found.
> 
> This seems like it was fixed by 65575c24aaa in 2016.

Good.  It's not fixed in Emacs 26, at least, which is
what the bug report references.
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 13 days ago.

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