> On 2008-10-15, Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andre Majorel wrote: > >> One frequently needed function that readline does not seem to > >> have is a way to move to the beginning of the next or previous > >> path component. > > > > Readline doesn't have any built-in knowledge of Unix pathnames. > > For my edification, is the relative lack of Unix/shell support > due to > 1. "can of worms", > 2. "readline is supposed to be general", > 3. "there is no need for it" ?
Mostly the second one, mixed with the fact that nobody's requested this particular feature before. Readline is very extensible; bash adds quite a lot to the basic framework -- look at all the code in bashline.c. If you'd like to take a crack at writing a bindable readline command to do what you want, I'd certainly look at it for a future version. (You'll probably get to it before I would.) Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/
