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Zefram <zefram@tao.co.uk> writes:

> Bruce Stephens wrote:
> >Another one---which I think I'd find acceptable---would be not to move
> >the cursor, so history-search-backward would always search for the
> >text before the cursor.  Or has that been tried, and people hated it?
> 
> That's exactly what history-beginning-search-* do.

Doh.  And it's even what M-p, M-n are bound to.  So is the problem
that people really like(d) the behaviour of going to the end of the
line?