Re: [Bug-readline] Cannot use M-<key> bindings in incremental search

[Davor Cubranic]

On August 28, 2010 04:55:41 pm you wrote:
> > Could this be because the lookup of the key in _rl_isearch_dispatch
> > (isearch.c:340) does not match for bindings involving Meta because
> > the input character 'c' does not map to an ISFUNC in the current
> > _rl_keymap?
> 
> It is, but changing this is a problem.  I can easily modify the code
> so that it handles keymap[key].type == ISKMAP and behaves
> appropriately, but it introduces an incompatibility.  ESC is one of
> the characters that terminates an incremental search; making this
> change will break that.  I'm reluctant to change the behavior as a
> result.

How about doing this check only if 'key' is not in 'isearch-
terminators'? I should have added that I removed ESC from my list of 
terminators, precisely for this reason.

Or, even better, move the isearch-terminators check as early as 
possible. Right now, it doesn't look like a few special characters (C-
G/W/Y) will work as they're treated specially around lines 350-355, and 
the terminator check is at line 362. That way, the whole customization 
works more consistently, and no keys are treated specially.

Thanks,

Davor