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Emacs master: Incorrect highlighting in regexp isearch.

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Message #17 received at 43702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 43702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43702: Emacs master: Incorrect highlighting in regexp isearch.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:08:23 +0200

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> 16.  The problem was that the submatch highlight was light magenta on
> dark magenta, which I just didn't see.  Maybe the colours used for
> isearch-group-1 on a 16 colour terminal are suboptimal.  They certainly
> don't work well on my Linux virtual tty.

I've now changed the face specs to inherit from the isearch face if
there's fewer than 88 colours.

> However, on pressing backspace to go back to previous matches, this new
> highlighting is no longer there.
>
> So, perhaps there is/are (a) bug(s) here after all, just not the one I
> thought I'd found.

Yup; I can reproduce that bug.

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