Thanks for pointing that out Drew. I think that if I follow Juri's  
suggestion and rely on isearch-allow-scroll instead of changing the key  
mapping it should be ok.

Gideon.

On , Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Adding a new count argument to `isearch-repeat-forward' is a pretty

> > unobtrusive change and is standard Emacs practice.



> Not really following this thread, so I don't have an opinion on the  
> proposed

> change (not even sure what it is).



> I'd just point out that the use of a prefix arg for the count does change  
> the

> current UI, where the prefix arg has a different meaning. (Not a big deal,

> IMO.)