> You are correct, here is no problem in bash-4.0 alpha. My apologies. > > An error message when bind is used and line editing is not enabled would > help. > > Alas, I suspect many will not try to use bind but still use "read" or > perhaps a set +o emacs and subsequently expecting some of default key > bindings which no longer are in effect. I threw in the bind command just to > try to help me see what was going on.
Bash will call the appropriate readline initialization hooks in the `read' and `set' builtin code paths. It's just the bind invocation that will fail if line editing isn't active. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/
