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Re: Rebinding forward-search-history causes lost of incremental behaviou


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Rebinding forward-search-history causes lost of incremental behaviour
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 09:48:33 -0400
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On 8/6/18 9:37 AM, Hugo Gabriel Eyherabide wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 18
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> Rebinding forward-search-history through
> bind '"\er": forward-search-history'
> does trigger the function, but not incrementally as \C-s does (when pressed
> repeatedly).

Because ESC (\e) is still one of the characters that terminates an
incremental search. The ESC terminates the search, but if you're quick
enough with the r, it will be pushed and prefix a new key sequence.


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