Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i586 > OS: linux > Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.1 > -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.1/../readline-5.1 > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux' > -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' > -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -O2 -march=i586 > -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g > -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -Wall -pipe -g -fbranch-probabilities > uname output: Linux sonic 2.6.16.21-0.25-default #1 Tue Sep 19 07:26:15 > UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > Machine Type: i586-suse-linux > > Bash Version: 3.1 > Patch Level: 17 > Release Status: release > > > Repeat By: >> shopt -u extglob >> hug() { echo !(hugo); } > bash: !: event not found > > OK: >> shopt -s extglob >> hug() { echo !(hugo); } >> ... > > Description: > Procedure definitions ought to be scanned and parsed independent of > any current shopt setting.
Commands entered at the keyboard are subject to history expansion, when it's active, regardless of whether or not a function definition is being parsed. The fact that the extglob setting inhibits history expansion when it appears that an extended pattern is being parsed is a heuristic: it's what is wanted most of the time. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash