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Re: Rebinding forward-search-history causes lost of incremental behaviour

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  Re: Rebinding forward-search-history causes lost of incremental behaviour Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-08-06 09:48 -0400

#14446 — Re: Rebinding forward-search-history causes lost of incremental behaviour

On 8/6/18 9:37 AM, Hugo Gabriel Eyherabide wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 18
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> Rebinding forward-search-history through
> bind '"\er": forward-search-history'
> does trigger the function, but not incrementally as \C-s does (when pressed
> repeatedly).

Because ESC (\e) is still one of the characters that terminates an
incremental search. The ESC terminates the search, but if you're quick
enough with the r, it will be pushed and prefix a new key sequence.


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