Subject: bug#15839: 24.3.50; `isearch-allow-scroll': be able to scroll point off screen temporarily

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 01:58:15 +0100

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> The problem is that some commands that are called with shift-key
> are unsuitable for isearch, e.g. S-M-< (beginning-of-buffer)
> should not put all text from the beginning of the buffer
> to the search string.
>
> It seems we can't detect such commands automatically,
> so one way to support a command is to put a property
> with the patch that I sent recently, e.g.
>
> (put 'backward-char 'isearch-move 'enabled)
> (put 'forward-char 'isearch-move 'enabled)

That sounds ok to me.  It would even give the user a way to configure
which commands are ok.

Michael.