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Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

From sunnycemetery@gmail.com
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search
Date 2019-10-31 18:32 -0400
Message-ID <mailman.142.1572561180.13325.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References <20191022025648.GA19869@midnight> <6fcf6dd7-a0b5-8868-797c-cefbcc3346a2@case.edu> <20191031223246.GA8439@midnight>

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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.

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Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search sunnycemetery@gmail.com - 2019-10-31 18:32 -0400

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