RE: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g')

[Drew Adams]

> Would it be possible to add the search string aborted with C-g to the
> other end of the search string history? (It is cyclic, isn't it?)

No, it is not.  That is why you see these messages:

"Beginning of history; no preceding item"
"End of history; no default available"

Otherwise, yes, that would be a reasonable suggestion.

(But it still would not let you yank the string into an existing search string
one or more times.)