Re: First two elements of search-ring shown twice in minibuffer when using M-p multiple times?

[Juri Linkov]

> thanks a million! I managed to "port" your fix down to the 1.297 version
> (tagged EMACS_22_1) by only applying your patch of isearch- 
> edit-string and it seems to work fine. Funnily enough the patch only works
> if I copy the whole definition of the patched isearch-edit- 
> string into my .emacs file. If I put the patch into the original
> isearch.el under c:\emacs\lisp at work or /usr/local/share/emacs/22.1/
> lisp on my Mac at home, the patch is ignored :-(. I *did* compile the
> file in both cases, the isearch.elc file was created without a  warning or
> error. What's up with that? Is isearch.el dumped into my  emacs binaries
> and emacs doesn't realize that the version on disk is  newer or something?

Yes, your guess is right: isearch.el is dumped into the Emacs executable,
but you can reload the newest version of isearch.el in your .emacs with
(load "isearch").

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/