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From: knighten@pinocchio (Bob Knighten)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: This is Bad (isearch-forward & query-replace)
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Date: 23 Aug 89 04:00:05 GMT
References: <1042@bimacs.BITNET> <36392@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1989Aug14.203218.6947@indetech.uucp>
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In-reply-to: lrs@indetech.uucp (Lynn Slater)

In article <1989Aug14.203218.6947@indetech.uucp>, lrs@indetech (Lynn Slater) writes:
>
>> Alternatively, some other key besides escape can be the key that exits
>> incremental search mode. 
>Setting search-exit-char will not make the arrow keys stop a search and
>work as arrow keys (like c-f or c-n will).  To make this work, a more
>general solution is needed such as allowing multiple search-exit-characters.
>You also have to let a character both stop a search and start the dispatch
>of the next command. 

Not so.  I use (setq search-exit-char 13)              ; Change from ESC to CR
and standard arrow key bindings and they exactly stop a search and work as
arrow keys.