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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: (search-forward "") should succeed
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Date: 20 Oct 89 18:55:59 GMT
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The call (search-forward "") should succeed, because point is always before
an empty string.  Instead, it always fails.  Here's a transcript.

	% emacs -q
	[Put "hello\n" in the buffer, and go to the start of the buffer.]
	hello RET M-<

	[Get our version number.]
	M-x emacs-version RET
	[The output is ``GNU Emacs 18.55.0 on farside (berkeley-unix)''.]

	M-x search-forward RET RET
	[The output is ``Search failed: ""''.  However, it should find an
	instance of the empty string.]