On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Richard Stallman wrote:

>as long as it is disabled by default, i don't object.
>

Here is my patch amended so that the doc-strings conform to Emacs
standards.

Is this complete repetition the least painful way to submit such a "patch
to a patch" or would it be prefered to submit literally a "patch to a
patch", saving bandwidth at the cost of convenience?

[A quick reminder of what this is for:  it lets you scroll the window
during incremental search, so that you can see more of what's around
point without leaving the search.  I've been using it for months, and
wouldn't want to be without it now.  :-]

I've put the `put' forms for the universal argument functions directly
into their sources in simple.el.  So here is an amended list to go into
a .emacs file for experimentation:

*************************************************************************
(setq isearch-allow-scroll t)

(if (fboundp 'scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll)
    (put 'scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll 'isearch-scroll t))
(if (fboundp 'mac-handle-scroll-bar-event)
    (put 'mac-handle-scroll-bar-event 'isearch-scroll t))
(if (fboundp 'w32-handle-scroll-bar-event)
    (put 'w32-handle-scroll-bar-event 'isearch-scroll t))

(put 'recenter 'isearch-scroll t)       ; Built-in
(put 'reposition-window 'isearch-scroll t) ; reposition.el, autoloaded
(put 'scroll-down 'isearch-scroll t)    ; Built-in
(put 'scroll-up 'isearch-scroll t)      ; Built-in

(put 'beginning-of-buffer-other-window 'isearch-scroll t) ; simple.el
(put 'delete-other-windows 'isearch-scroll t) ; Built-in
(put 'split-window-vertically 'isearch-scroll t) ; window.el
(put 'end-of-buffer-other-window 'isearch-scroll t) ; simple.el
(put 'scroll-other-window 'isearch-scroll t) ; Built-in
(put 'scroll-other-window-down 'isearch-scroll t) ; simple.el
(put 'list-buffers 'isearch-scroll t)   ; buff-menu.el
(put 'enlarge-window 'isearch-scroll t) ; Built-in
(put 'balance-windows 'isearch-scroll t) ; window.el
*************************************************************************

If this patch is to find its way into Emacs, I'll also need to patch
window.el etc. with these forms.

cc's of followups would be appreciated.

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