Re: Recentish C-s M-y change

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Many commands in isearch-mode-map explicitly allow and use a prefix 
> > argument (C-q, C-r, C-s, C-w, ...).  isearch-yank-kill (C-y) and 
> > isearch-yank-pop (M-y) accept one, but it is unused.  I don't see what 
> > meaning could be attached to a numeric argument to isearch-yank-kill or 
> > isearch-yank-pop, so I think that using C-u to start an interactive 
> > selection with these two commands would make sense.
>
> The problem is that C-u has other meaning in 'C-u M-y' where it puts 
> point at beginning and mark at end.

Are you sure?  I don't see this, I do not see any difference between C-s 
M-y and C-s C-u M-y.