Re: isearch eating initial ESC generated by cursor keys

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From: Joshua D. Guttman
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 07:29

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In previous discussion of isearch, people have said:

Brandon> There's a MUCH cleaner way:
Brandon> (setq search-exit-char ?\r)

Dion> This is definitely cleaner, but does not solve the problem jbw put

Richard> Wrong.  I use the fix of setting the search exit char to \r and it
Richard> does indeed both terminate the search and perform movement also.

Remember the variable search-exit-option, documentation for which is below.
Default seems to be t, but this may expalin the differing experiences:


*Help*
search-exit-option's value is t

Documentation:
*Non-nil means random control characters terminate incremental search.

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