Re: Strange behavior of word isearch

[Chong Yidong]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:

>> In other words, previously a word search for "foo" is a regexp search
>> for "\bfoo\b"; this patch changes the search to "\bfoo".
>
> Couldn't this break modes like `ada-mode' or `flyspell-mode'?

Yeah, that might cause some unpredictable breakage.

So probably we need to introduce a separate function that performs an
"open-ended" version of word-search-forward.  Any suggestions for the
function name?