I have been using emacsw32 for a year or so, and I never even realized that meta+r is supposed to be interactive and show hits right away! This works in the unpatched emacsw32 client (which is also much newer, btw).
Wondering if anyone knows why this is? Is it the patching breaking it or is it the older emacs? Its not very old though, still 23.1.50.1.
I am thinking it might just be a setting thats missing?