Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

2019-12-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/8/19 7:15 PM, sunnycemet...@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. I

Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

2019-12-08 Thread sunnycemetery
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

Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

2019-11-04 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/31/19 6:32 PM, sunnycemet...@gmail.com wrote: 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 ba

Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

2019-10-31 Thread sunnycemetery
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 b

Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

2019-10-30 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/22/19 5:45 PM, sunnycemet...@gmail.com wrote: > Moreover, the history search should be closed when the cursor is moved > (e.g. as with the left arrow key bound to backward-char), but the cursor > does not move (even with “æ” bound directly to forward-word). Because that character doesn't ter

Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

2019-10-30 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/21/19 10:56 PM, sunnycemet...@gmail.com wrote: > Given the following binding... > >> "æ": "\ef" > > ... should not pressing “æ” during a history search end the search--the > same as pressing Escape followed by “f”?  This does not happen with 5.0.3 > (screencast attached). Incremental searc

Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

2019-10-22 Thread sunnycemetery
Moreover, the history search should be closed when the cursor is moved (e.g. as with the left arrow key bound to backward-char), but the cursor does not move (even with “æ” bound directly to forward-word).