Re: highlight failed part of isearch input

[Stefan Monnier]

>> There is one inconsistence: when incrementally adding characters to the
>> search string it highlights one part (only failed) of the search string,
>> but when repeating the search with the same string from the search ring,
>> it highlights the whole string.  This is a minor inconsistence, and can
>> be tolerated if unavoidable.

> Yes. I don't know how to fix that.

We could simply try to find the longest prefix which does have a match.
Can't be that hard.


        Stefan