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Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

From Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search
Date 2019-12-12 16:01 -0500
Message-ID <mailman.747.1576184499.1979.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <6fcf6dd7-a0b5-8868-797c-cefbcc3346a2@case.edu> <20191031223246.GA8439@midnight> <72ba8e76-5962-3855-2361-d05cf34569a1@case.edu> <20191209001514.GA935957@midnight> <177cc3e6-5ee4-aeb3-41ff-2c92b1f7d52d@case.edu>

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On 12/8/19 7:15 PM, sunnycemetery@gmail.com wrote:
> On 2019-11-04 14:41, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> If \ef and Alt+f generate distinct character sequences, you can bind them 
>> separately. If they don't, you can't. This has nothing to do with whether 
>> or not incremental searching expands keyboard macros.
> 
> In that case, how would one go about binding æ such that it both exits an 
> incremental search and executes forward-word?

There isn't, really. Any character that doesn't end the search or map to
one of a few editing functions that the isearch code uses to modify the
search string is added to the search string.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-12-12 16:01 -0500

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