Andy Piper writes: > Do > C-i > Type something to search. When you find it hit > C-a > Then do: > C-i C-i > isearch then searches for the thing you looked for *before* the thing > you just found instead of searching for the same string again. By default C-i `indent-for-tab-command', so maybe it is your strange key bindings. When I use C-s instead of C-i, I don't have your problems. (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.5 (beta0) \"alfalfa\" [Lucid] (mips-sgi-irix6.5) of Tue May 1 2001 on hqgcs1" -- Colin