On 04/11/15 13:47, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 11/3/15 7:44 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: >> The shell-expand-line command (bound to Escape-Ctrl-E) incorrectly removes >> quotation marks from >> the command line, often resulting in a command that differs from what the >> user intended to type. > > This is the documented behavior. shell-expand-line performs all of the > shell word expansions, including quote removal.
How useful is that though when the expansion gives a different meaning? >> I often type Escape-Ctrl-E to expand a history substitution in place >> before typing Enter, but it has the side effect of stripping quotes from >> what I've already typed. > > If you want to perform history expansion, try M-^ (history-expand-line). Yes this is useful. I've set it up to happen automatically with this in my .inputrc $if Bash # do history expansion when space entered Space: magic-space $endif cheers, Pádraig.
