Martin Panter added the comment: I reported this to Gnu Readline: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2015-05/msg00014.html>. So far it sounds like there is no general solution. I am posting a patch implementing Sebastian’s workaround. But my personal philosophy is to leave Python alone if it is not doing anything wrong and this is indeed a Readline bug.
Chet also pointed out that there are other modes in addition to incremental search that are not cancelled. For instance, the “argument” mode where you press Alt+<number> etc. ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39514/readline-cancel.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24266> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
