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On 2019-10-30 13:40, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Incremental search doesn't do macro translation like that.

I see.  Is this considered a shortcoming?

Being able to bind \ef and Alt+f to different commands in various programs  
is useful, but without bash coming along for the ride, I might have to  
go back to XTerm*altSendsEscape.  This is, of course, only one usage case.