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25.1; isearch-forward-word first matches a non-word

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Message #58 received at 25562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com, 25562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#25562: 25.1; isearch-forward-word first matches a non-word
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:06:11 +0200

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:04:05 +0100
> Cc: 25562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com>
> 
>   "In incremental symbol search, only the beginning of the search string
>   is required to match the beginning of a symbol."
> 
> but as it stands, the sentence is false - this is only true while still
> adding characters to the input.

"While still adding characters" is not a useful qualification in
incremental search, because the user has no means to tell Emacs when
this phase is over.  I think you meant to say "until the next C-s".

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