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23.0.60; isearch string not quoted in M-s h r

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; isearch string not quoted in M-s h r
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:57:30 +0200

If you do for example

  C-s some. M-s h r

then the search string from isearch is not quoted when highlight-regexp
gets it which means it will match for example "something".



In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-09-02
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags
-Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'

Message #10 received at 867 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 867 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; isearch string not quoted in M-s h r
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:54:46 -0400

> If you do for example
>
>   C-s some. M-s h r
>
> then the search string from isearch is not quoted when
> highlight-regexp gets it which means it will match for example
> "something".

I don't understand.  How is this a bug?

Message #15 received at 867 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 867 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; isearch string not quoted in M-s h r
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:05:09 +0200

Chong Yidong wrote:
>> If you do for example
>>
>>   C-s some. M-s h r
>>
>> then the search string from isearch is not quoted when
>> highlight-regexp gets it which means it will match for example
>> "something".
> 
> I don't understand.  How is this a bug?

C-s and then "some." just matches the string "some.". If it is converted
to a regexp without quoting it will also match "somet" and that was not
what the user wanted.

I think this worked before. Something went wrong when you (was it you?)
took care of the case insensitive problem.

Message #20 received at 867-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 867-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; isearch string not quoted in M-s h r
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:05:35 -0400

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Chong Yidong wrote:
>>> If you do for example
>>>
>>>   C-s some. M-s h r
>>>
>>> then the search string from isearch is not quoted when
>>> highlight-regexp gets it which means it will match for example
>>> "something".
>> 
>> I don't understand.  How is this a bug?
>
> C-s and then "some." just matches the string "some.". If it is
> converted to a regexp without quoting it will also match "somet" and
> that was not what the user wanted.
>
> I think this worked before. Something went wrong when you (was it
> you?)  took care of the case insensitive problem.

OK, now I understand.  I've checked in a fix.  Thanks for spotting this.

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