$ emacs -q M-< C-s M-e b Then emacs complaints that the minibuffer for isearch-edit-string is read only. Changing the value for minibuffer-prompt-properties cures the suffering.
Harald In GNU Emacs 22.0.95.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0, X toolkit) of 2007-03-05 on gaia X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000 configured using `configure '--without-carbon' '--with-x'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Help Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t view-mode: t Recent input: <up> <return> M-: <M-S-up> <up> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <backspace> <return> C-h v <up> <return> C-x 1 <f3> <f4> <f4> C-x k <return> C-x m <up> <right> <right> <down> m a i e r h a <backspace> 7 @ g m a i l . c o m <down> T e s t SPC f r o m SPC m <backspace> e m a c s - x 1 1 <down> <down> C-c C-c <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug> Recent messages: Defining kbd macro... Keyboard macro defined Ignore empty macro Only one keyboard macro defined. Loading sendmail... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading sendmail...done Loading mailalias...done Sending...done Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug