On 1/5/13 8:36 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
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> Chet Ramey wrote:
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>> OK, if readline as it currently exists doesn't offer the feature you want,
>> why not take a shot at writing it? You might find that others like it as
>> well, though none of them have spoken up so far.
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> This feature used to exist in 3.0. You "fixed it" to only
> work at the command prompt. It would be useful, as you did the work
> to create the new functionality, if that fix could be put into an option.
No, it really didn't. In bash-3.0, bash-3.1, and bash-3.2, TAB performs
filename completion when at $PS2 while entering quoted strings or multi-
line compound commands, whether or not the no_empty_cmd_completion option
is on or not.
> Thank-you for pointing my confusion. However, what I'd rather have,
> ties in with the last paragraph you neglected to mention:
>
> "I also noticed bash doesn't recognize META-key sequences in vi-mode.
> Yet it does recognize ESC-prefixed cursor-key sequences as not being "ESC",
> but I should likely address that in a separate email so as not to confuse
> the issue."
I'll take a look at the meta-key sequences (by which I assume you mean
keys whose value is > 127) issue with vi-insert mode.
There is an intra-character timeout in current readline versions that does
what I think you are talking about. That is what allows readline to
distinguish between, say, ESC meaning to go into vi commandm mode, and
ESC-TAB meaning to perform word completion.
Chet
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