I wanted to open this discussion a long time ago but never had the time
to actually do it.

Anyway, why is the normalize option needed? I can see no use for it
(but I haven't really looked into groups so there might be something).

The thing is if I want to run something with parameters and the command
does not consist of lower-case letters only I can't do it through exec,
I have to run it from an xterm or the like.

Example: `Xnest :1'

This patch fixes this at the search_start level, this fix should
probably be moved in input_keycodetrans() if the normalize option is
found useless.
Index: search.c
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RCS file: /cvs/xenocara/app/cwm/search.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 search.c
--- search.c 2 Oct 2007 18:01:45 -0000 1.4
+++ search.c 20 Nov 2007 19:26:07 -0000
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
*/

if (input_keycodetrans(e.xkey.keycode, e.xkey.state,
- &ctl, &chr, 1) < 0)
+ &ctl, &chr, 0) < 0)
continue;

switch (ctl) {