Re: Cyrillic letters abort i-search sometimes

VK> But not in i-search in dired or view-mode, or VK> gnus-summary-mode (according to the news:gnu.emacs.gnus VK> newsgroup, the problem with the latter also occurs in VK> MULE-enabled XEmacs -- but not in GNU Emacs; Ah, OK, all of those are likely to override the whole global-map since they use many letters for commands and don't want others to ever self-insert. Hm ... dired uses suppress-keymap for this. SJT> (define-key global-map [Cyrillic_te] #'self-insert-command) SJT> (put Cyrillic_te 'ascii-character ?т) VK> Maybe, a typo in the second string? It does not evaluate here. You're right, the Cyrillic_te needs to be quoted (put 'Cyrillic_te 'ascii-character ?т) However, this is evidently irrelevant; if the keysym were unrecognized you couldn't use isearch in _any_ mode. Don't do either of those define-keys or the put 'ascii-character. It shouldn't hurt but it can't help. I'd be curious to know if quoting a Cyrillic character with C-q helps. (Just an experiment and maybe a workaround for the occasional case where you only need a couple of Cyrillic characters for the search.) Try M-x find-library RET isearch-mode RET, find the variable isearch-mode-keymap, and in the loop where it binds most stuff to 'isearch-printing-character, change the while loop bound from 127 to 255 [this is non-Mule, right?], and M-x byte-compile-and-load-file RET RET. Then try it. If that gives satisfactory results, to get it in future invocations of XEmacs you'll have to redump XEmacs (rm src/xemacs; make & get-coffee-or-beverage-of-choice ;-) because isearch-mode is preloaded. The current code is very very wrong, but I'm not sure what is the Right Thing to do yet. However, I think the above workaround is safe, and if it works for you I will recommend it to Vin for inclusion in 21.4. (Protected by (if (featurep 'mule) 127 255) until we know it is safe for Mule---if someone out there in Cyrillic or ISO 8859-land who uses Mule would confirm it doesn't blow up your terminal I'd love to hear about it! Note: it will not help for Cyrillic under Mule because Cyrillic doesn't map to 128--255 under Mule.) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.