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From: Phil Agre
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 1994 00:48

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Hello --

Somewhere between version 18.56 and version 19.15, GNU Emacs incremental
search (isearch-forward) seems to have changed its behavior.  Specifically, 
it handles newlines differently now, so that if I type:

c-s <return> abc

I no longer get incremental search for lines of text that begin with the
characters "abc".  Instead I seem to get a (non-incremental) search-forward
for the characters "abc" appearing anywhere on a line.  I don't know whether
this functionality is intended or not (I must admit I don't understand its
purpose), but I am wondering if I can get the old functionality back somehow.
Many of my macros depend on it.

Thanks a lot.

Phil Agre

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