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From: lewis@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Bil Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: I-Search errors inside emacstool
Message-ID: <774@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 15:59:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 15:59:13 1987
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In-reply-to: abair@oakhill.UUCP's message of 20 Nov 87 22:26:31 GMT

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.36.1 of Fri Feb  6 1987 on rocky (berkeley-unix)


A,
  Yep, you've just run into a common complaint/problem to which there is
no good solution.   Putting commands on function keys by appropriately
binding ESC-<something> is a neat thing to to & I love it.  Unfortunately,
there is no way to tell Emacs that what you REALLY want is a single-keystroke
command to be read from that function key, not ESC-[f or something.

  You do not want to redefine ESC inside of an I-Search because you really
do want to be able to use it as ``end of search''.  If you can redefine
what the function keys send, there is hope for you.  Otherwise, just
get used to typing ESC FN-KEY.

-Bil
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