Re: Interacting with minibuffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sébastien Le Callonnec <sebastien@weblogism.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 19:45:55 +0100
> 
> I use emacs built on the master branch.  The new behaviour of minibuffer
> keeps tripping me, to the point where I feel like I am fighting with it, and 
> end up going into an M-g frenzy.
> 
> Those are typically difficult to reproduce, but I found an example where
> I am at a loss as to what I am supposed to do to get the right
> behaviour.
> 
> Let's say I have a buffer open, and I want to do a `search-forward' with
> a string already in my kill ring, so C-s, I get into the minibuffer,
> C-y, and it turns out that the string is not present in the buffer.  At
> that point my reflex is to try to edit the search string: arrow keys end
> up moving the cursor in the buffer, and the command disappears from the
> minibuffer; backspace deletes the whole search string.

What you describe is how C-s (a.k.a. isearch-forward, not
search-forward) always worked: C-s doesn't get you into the
minibuffer.  So maybe you didn't describe the full sequence of
commands you typed?