bug#14729: 24.3.50; Isearch oddity

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

> `isearch-fail-pos' assumes that in a failed state of search
> a shorter previous successful search string should be taken
> as a basis for highlighting.  In this case, the last successful match
> was "buf", so an appended suffix is highlighted as failed.

So, first we have:

Then we type "fer", and then get:

But...  I think I'd expect getting

instead?  Probably.

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