Subject: bug#867: 23.0.60; isearch string not quoted in M-s h r

From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <[email-masked]>
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.