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.

Yury


On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/27/17 12:55 AM, Yuriy Ershov wrote:
> > Ah, it seems I understand what is happening!
> > In *-search-history mode there is no ANY delay allowed for ESC key.
>
> Not quite. This comment is appropriate:
>
>       /* ESC still terminates the search, but if there is pending
>          input or if input arrives within 0.1 seconds (on systems
>          with select(2)) it is used as a prefix character
>          with rl_execute_next.  WATCH OUT FOR THIS!  This is intended
>          to allow the arrow keys to be used like ^F and ^B are used
>          to terminate the search and execute the movement command.
>          XXX - since _rl_input_available depends on the application-
>          settable keyboard timeout value, this could alternatively
>          use _rl_input_queued(100000) */
>
>
> > It looks like in *-search-history mode readline is "previewing" the next
> > input char and prefers to escape back to "normal" mode if there is
> anything
> > unusual.
>
> If there is more input or if input arrives within a tenth of a second.
>
> > This is the way the Up and Down keys work.
> > Also, if *-search-history is bound to a key starting with ESC, it detects
> > the next ESC key and bails out to the normal mode, leaving that ESC in
> the
> > input queue.
>
> Only if ESC is in the set of characters that terminates the search. If you
> remove ESC from the value of the readline `isearch-terminators' variable,
> you should have better luck.
>
> > Then readline reads the sequence: ah, there's a *-search-history command,
> > let's do the search. But because it has just entered the mode, the buffer
> > is empty.
>
> Right.
>
> > Does it look like the truth?
>
> Pretty close. A nice job of investigation.
>
> Chet
>
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