Subject: bug#44418: 28.0.50; Spliced variable not matched as symbol in isearch

From: Basil Contovounesios <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:38:19 +0100

Mattias Engdegård [2023-06-24 12:12 +0200] wrote:

> Furthermore, the @SYMBOL notation is quite un-Lisp-like and alien to Lisp
> programmers who definitely tend to make use of symbol search, which is why this
> bug (about the ,@ prefix) was so annoying: it not only prevented us from
> effectively finding all occurrences of a symbol, but deprived us of a common way
> to check that the spelling of name is correct and corresponds to its
> definition. A pity if we now introduce the same kind of bug again, unforced.

FWIW, as a workaround I'm trying to use 'M-s M-.' in place of 'M-s .'.
I may eventually be compelled to customise
isearch-forward-thing-at-point with a custom 'thing' specifically for
@-prefixed Elisp symbols.

-- 
Basil