Re: C-f in isearch's non-incremental minibuffer edit

[Richard Stallman]

    > Could you tell me, at the level of user-visible behavior, how its
    > currently differs from the usual history functionality?

    No.  It basically works the same, although maybe it doesn't skip
    things in quite the same order.

Could you show me that patch again?  The code you're removing
must have had some motivation.  It might not be a good motivation,
but we can't judge it without seeing what it was.