Oh, I just thought of something. If you try to patch isearch.el and then load-file it the new keybindings won't take place (the map is defvar'ed). I think you have to compile isearch.el to isearch.elc and then run with temacs.

Hope this helps,

Gideon.

On , gideon.stupp@gmail.com wrote:
> hmm. It shouldn't exit. I probably have a bug in the patch (that's the problem with experimental patches ;)). I will look at it again in (my) morning.
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> Thanks, Gideon.
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> On , Tassilo Horn tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > Gideon Stupp gideon.stupp@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Gideon,
> >
> >
> >
> > > This experimental patch implements a suggestion by Juri Linkov to extend
> >
> > > isearch-repeat-forward/backward to support a prefix argument.
> >
> >
> >
> > I like it. I adapted it a bit to show the hints at the position where
> >
> > point would be if that one's selected, and I added also a bit
> >
> > superscript magic, which suits me better, visually. (Well, that should
> >
> > be customizable, of course.)
> >
> >
> >
> > But how the heck is the usage of the prefix arg supposed to work? When
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> > I do C-s foo C-3, isearch is exited...
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> >
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Tassilo
> >