Thank you. I will therefore change my mind and suggest this feature _not_ be
included.
(I could also try
$ stty kill '@'
for the same reason.)
Sent from my iPad
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
>
> Ryan Campbell Cunningham wrote:
>> I would like to request that Bash delete the character
>> immediately preceding a '#', provided the '#'
>> ...
>> (The request was inspired by an article in the seventh
>> edition of the UNIX Programmer's Manual. This feature
>> is not required by POSIX, but came from the traditional
>> Bourne shell.)
>
> This isn't a feature of the shell but of the tty driver. It still
> exists. It is still possible to use it today exactly as it was used
> in Unix V7.
>
> $ stty -a | grep --color erase
> intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
>
> $ stty erase '#'
>
> $ stty -a | grep --color erase
> intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = #; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
>
> Feel free to try it.
>
> You can also customize the behavior of your bash libreadline by
> setting the backward-delete-char key binding. Place the following in
> your $HOME/.inputrc file for example.
>
> "#" backward-delete-char
>
>> I would like to request that Bash delete the character
>> immediately preceding a '#', provided the '#'
>>
>> * does not begin a new word,
>> * is not included in any quoted string or variable,
>> * is not preceded by a '\', and
>> * is only found in an interactive command line (not
>> in a script* or Bash initialization argument).
>>
>> An exception: If the character immediately preceding
>> is also a '#', Bash should skip backward to the previous
>> non-'#' character and delete as much characters as the
>> number of consecutive '#' characters after them in the
>> same word.
>
> Oh my, isn't that a complicated set of rules! That is bound to cause
> trouble. Not good. Plus that isn't how it worked in V7 days.
>
> Bob
