On 3/13/23 7:06 PM, Alex Bochannek wrote:
I also noticed that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to expand
braces with Readline, which I suspect may have to do with where in the
parsing process of Bash brace expansion actually happens.
Readline is fairly application-agnostic. There is a mechanism for
applications to add their own bindable commands, which bash does, but
there isn't one that just performs brace expansion.
This
suggestion from a few years ago does the trick, but feels like it
shouldn't be necessary.
I assume that means you think there should be a bash-specific bindable
command that performs brace expansion on the current word?
The documentation for M-C-e says "Expand the line as the shell does.
This performs alias and history expansion as well as all of the shell
word expansions (*note Shell Expansions::)." Maybe that can be tightened
up a bit as well to clarify what it does not do?
Sure, it can list the word expansions it performs.
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