Re: [Bug-readline] {forward,reverse}-search-history binding bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/27/17 12:55 AM, Yuriy Ershov wrote:
> Ah, it seems I understand what is happening!
> In *-search-history mode there is no ANY delay allowed for ESC key.
> It looks like in *-search-history mode readline is "previewing" the next
> input char and prefers to escape back to "normal" mode if there is anything
> unusual.
> This is the way the Up and Down keys work.
> Also, if *-search-history is bound to a key starting with ESC, it detects
> the next ESC key and bails out to the normal mode, leaving that ESC in the
> input queue.
> Then readline reads the sequence: ah, there's a *-search-history command,
> let's do the search. But because it has just entered the mode, the buffer
> is empty.
> 
> Does it look like the truth?

That sounds right, but I haven't looked at it yet.

Chet

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