Subject: bug#15200: isearch-other-meta-char and shift

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:07:24 -0400

> This is because (lookup-key isearch-mode-map (this-command-keys))
> used to check when to exit isearch, with a prepended prefix can't decide
> whether a key sequence is bound to an isearch command or not, e.g.:

> (lookup-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-u C-l")) => 1
> (lookup-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-u C-w")) => 1

> both return 1.

OK, don't worry about that: the fix needs to be elsewhere (I happen to
have a work-in-progress patch which fixes that problem).

So, I think you can go ahead and install your patch.
And please make a bug-report for the C-u C-w problem, so we don't forget
about it.

        Stefan