Making ctrl-S send some funny escape sequence

Article View: comp.emacs

Article #3663

#3663

From: Bernie Cosell
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1986 14:01

18 lines
1515 bytes

I tried this and it doesn't quite work.  The magic control chars in
incremental search mode (which is the point of this, isn't it, to get
your favorite search when you type ctrl-S) are defined to be *char*.
Thus, when I type ctrl-S, ctrl-S it doesn't re-search.  If anyone
knows of a way to fix the incremental search guys to take
sequences or something instead of "just chars", please let me know.

(also, I discovered, not even 'meta' works: I tried making the research
char be meta-S just to see what happens.  Well, the obvious (after you
think about it for a while): I have no way to type "meta-S".  I have
a *command* that'll make-believe it is meta-S (escape followed by
S), but that is NOT the same thing as a real meta-S, and so doesn't work.

  /Bernie

Bernie Cosell                       Internet:  cosell@bbn.com
Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc         USENET:    bbnccv!bpc
Cambridge, MA   02238               Telco:     (617) 497-3503

Technical Details

Message-ID: <8612021419.AA17163@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!PROPHET.BBN.COM!cosell

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!PROPHET.BBN.COM!cosell
From: cosell@PROPHET.BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Making ctrl-S send some funny escape sequence
Message-ID: <8612021419.AA17163@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 09:01:10 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8612021419.AA17163
Posted: Tue Dec  2 09:01:10 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 20:08:23 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 18