Making ^J and ^H work in / (search)

Thu Jun 30 21:57:43 CEST 2016

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On 30/06/16 16:36, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> Do you have ‘<backspace>’ that is bound somewhere else than ‘DEL’? 
> (See ‘<f1> k <backspace>’.)
> 
>> So I changed it to (global-set-key (kbd "C-h") (kbd 
>> "<backspace>")) instead of delete-backwards-char. But it still 
>> doesn't work when searching.
> 
> Is there is any reason why you believe that this should work?  I
> did not suggest you to do anything like this.
I confused what kbd "DEL" did with what the DEL key does. Using kbd
"DEL" achieves the same as kbd "<backspace", as far as I can tell.

>> '/ab^J' will bring up search, and add 'ab' followed by literally 
>> the characters '^' and 'J'.
> 
> No, it’s followed by literally the character ‘^J’ (this is one 
> character — ‘linefeed’ aka ‘\n’ is C notation).
Sorry, I meant visually. It is indeed literally the character '^J'.


In the end though, your suggestion unfortunately doesn't solve anything.
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