Re: Custom backspace delete in mini-buffer

[TheLonelyStar]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> 
> Drew Adams wrote:
>>> It works fine, but there is a problem. When I am in i-search 
>>> mode, pressing backspace deletes the last character in the
>>> window, not in the i-search mini-buffer.
>>>
>>> I do not know much about elisp. The function above I just 
>>> "stole" together. What can I do?
>> 
>> I don't have time to look at this now - hopefully someone else will help
>> you. 
>> 
>> But here's one piece of info that might help a little: isearch does not
>> use the
>> minibuffer (for normal searching); it uses the echo area. It reads your
>> input
>> events without using the minibuffer, and it echoes your keys to the echo
>> area in
>> an incremental way.
> 
> I am not sure and I have no idea why it should be needed, but try this
> 
>    (define-key isearch-mode-map [backspace] 'isearch-delete-char)
> 
> 

Well, it works! Thanks!
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