Re: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g')

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I've tested your proposal (I don't need to test the other one, since
> > the behavior is pretty obvious).
>
> Good.  Thanks for trying it out.
>
> > I see two problems in your proposal:
> > 1. It adds a bit of (unnecesary) user-level complexity: the users has
> > to remember whether the search string was accepted (i.e. pushed to the
> > search ring) or not, since the way of retrieving it is different in
> > each case.
> > 2. The user can't  The search string is lost if is not accepted and is
> > not the last one.

Would it be possible to add the search string aborted with C-g to the
other end of the search string history? (It is cyclic, isn't it?)