On 4/9/18 10:51 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 19
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> Currently `READLINE_POINT' counts the number of bytes but not
> characters. This makes difficult to properly implement shell functions
> for `bind -x' that uses `READLINE_POINT'. In fact, almost all the
> implementations of `bind -x' functions which can be found in the
> internet is broken for this point.
Because the underlying readline variable that it controls, rl_point, is
kept in bytes -- an index into the line buffer. If you change this, it
will set the point to the wrong place in the buffer (exposed to that
function as READLINE_LINE).
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
