Re: changing bindings in isearch mode?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:23:53 -0500
Greg Klanderman <gak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >>>>> Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Absolutely, but it's a very tricky change to push the behaviour into
> > functions.  Translation:  it's not clear anyone knows how to do this and
> > it's very clear no one has the time to find out.
> 
> I don't think you need (or even want) to push the behavior into
> functions; the menu-select widget already uses the "menuselect"
> keymap.  It looks like it's just casing on the commands that are
> bound, not executing them necessarily, and this seems to also be how
> the isearch code is written, using tests of the form
> 
>         cmd == Th(z_****)
> 
> Just glancing over the code, it would appear not too hard to create a
> keymap for isearch, add an isearch-exit widget, and add a case for it
> in doisearch.  Does that seem like a reasonable solution?

Yes, it looks like you're right.

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