On Thu, 28 May 2009, Pierre Gaston wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <c...@freeshell.org> > wrote: > > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Chet Ramey wrote: > > > >> > > >> > This is nothing new; it happens in all versions of bash: > >> > > >> > printf "Enter something: " > >> > read -e whatever > >> > > >> > Press a key, then cursor left (or ^A); the cursor moves to the > >> > beginning of the line, over "E" instead of over the character just > >> > entered. > >> > >> This isn't a bug; that's where readline thinks the cursor is. > > > > Why would it think that? It's wrong. > > > >> If you want to use a prompt, use `read -p'. > > > > I like to write portable scripts; read -p is not portable. > > well, read -e is not more portable than read -p afaict
Good point! -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
