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Bug#391098: marked as done (when an i-search is failing, the letters you type should still appear onscreen)

Your message dated Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:18:23 +0000
with message-id <E1l6hWZ-000Bru-4d@fasolo.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#980504: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #391098,
regarding when an i-search is failing, the letters you type should still appear onscreen
to be marked as done.

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Package: libreadline5
Version: 5.1-7
Severity: wishlist

My suggestion is about readline's i-search and reverse-isearch.
Currently, when you type a letter that is not found, you hear a beep
and isearch seems to start ignoring everything you type. But:

1. Not all people will be set up to hear the beep. For example, you
may have no PC speaker(s), or your X terminal emulator may have beeps
disabled.

2. You can't tell how many times to backspace, since the not-found
letters aren't shown onscreen.

It would be great if readline's isearch worked more like emacs, or if
there was an input option to make it so. This would mean:

1. when an isearch failed, you would hear a single beep, and the
prompt would change to "Failing i-search:"

2. all letters you typed would show up normally, though they would
have no effect until you backspaced them.

Cheers,
Jason Spiro

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Version: 5.2+dfsg-3+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package readline5 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/980504

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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Joerg Jaspert (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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