On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

>In February, I submitted a patch to enable scrolling commands to be used
>from within isearch mode without aborting the current search. 
....

>Here is an (almost) complete version.  To enable this facility, set the
>customizable variable isearch-allow-scroll to a non-nil value.  (It is
>set to nil by default.)  The enclosed patch to search.texi explains how
>it works.

Sorry:  One of my patch files, isearch.1.222.acm.el.diff, wasn't in
context format.  It is now.  Here it is again.

>-- 
>Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
>acm@muc.de