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Emacs 19.22

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From: Jim Cathey
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 14:49
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>long time) and was really surprised to find that incremental searches
>are now terminated with a RET rather than ESC.

Nasty!

>Why did something as "basic" as this get changed so late in the game?

Idiocy.

>Can this be changed back to ESC with something in my .emacs file?

The variable search-exit-char is probably of interest to you.

-- Jim
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