Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/31/19 6:32 PM, sunnycemetery@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 bash coming along for the ride, I might have to go 
> back to XTerm*altSendsEscape.  This is, of course, only one usage case.

This isn't close to true. 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.


--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/