Subject: bug#60740: 29.0.60; Broken isearch-emoji-by-name

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 09:24:10 +0200

Ping!  Lars, Jonas: I'd really like to have a solution for this before
Emacs 29 goes into pretest.  Please help.

> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:47:08 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> > From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 21:45:44 +0200
> > 
> > etc/NEWS:
> > 
> >   +++
> >   *** New command 'isearch-emoji-by-name'.
> >   It is bound to 'C-x 8 e RET' during an incremental search.  The
> >   command accepts the Unicode name of an Emoji (for example, "smiling
> >   face" or "heart with arrow"), like 'C-x 8 e e', with minibuffer
> >   completion, and adds the Emoji into the search string.
> > 
> > These examples "smiling face" and "heart with arrow" work fine.
> > 
> > But typing e.g. 'C-s C-x 8 e RET waving hand RET' fails with:
> > 
> >   ⛔ Error (transient): Inconsistent transient state detected.
> >   This should never happen.
> >   Please open an issue and post the shown command log.
> >   This is a heisenbug, so any additional details might help.
> >   Thanks!
> 
> Looks like a problem with any Emoji that has variants, where you need
> to select one of the variants?
> 
> Lars, Jonas, could you please look into this?
> 
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