🚀 go-pugleaf

Emacs 19.25.

I typed the following into *scratch* and evaluated it:

(save-excursion
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (isearch-forward))

This puts me into isearch.  If I then type M-p, isearch immediately
exits, returning nil.  The documentation for isearch-forward says
this:

    If this function is called non-interactively, it does not return to
    the calling function until the search is done.

So I think that this behavior is a bug.

While I'm at it, noninteractive use of isearch doesn't seem to be very
convenient.  For instance, I don't see a way to get the last search
string.  I think it would be good if isearch-forward returned the
search string (for a successful search), or nil if the user terminated
the search.

Tom
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