bug#22589: 25.0.90; First match found by isearch-forward-symbol is not necessarily a symbol.

[Michael Heerdegen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> Please imagine that you need to search for the symbol "int" (or any
> other symbol longer than the single-character "i").  How then you
> would be able to type the whole symbol "int" if the search failed
> after typing the first character "i" (or moved to the first occurrence
> of the symbol "i" when you need to find the symbol "int")?

I agree that this is a useful feature.  Not having it would make
entering the search pattern confusing.

But I think it should be documented.  When does it occur, and what else
is matched (one or two sentences).

There could also be some indication when this first match is not a
"real" match - but that might be overkill.


Regards,

Michael.