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