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

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/12/17 2:49 AM, Yuriy Ershov wrote:
> So.. Guys, this is really easy to reproduce.
> Can someone confirm this is a bug?
> Or else pease tell me how do I map a key sequence starting with ESC (which
> is essentially any sane key/combination) to the *-search-history command.

Here's the thing: the ESC, since it's part of the default value of the
`isearch-terminators' variable, ends the search and makes the last line
found the current line. All the work after that is to decide whether to
drop the ESC or to assume it's part of a multi-character key sequence and
use it. The search is already terminated.

If you want to try it, remove the ESC from the value of isearch-terminators
(just set it to only ^J) and see whether things work more to your liking.

I did a little bit of work post bash-4.4 to make isearch mode work better
with multi-character key sequences, but there may still be issues there.

Chet
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