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Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

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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

#15720 — Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

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.

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