A readline question recently came up on the cygwin list. The root cause of the
problem is that the cmd.com terminal accepts the sequence "\001" as a printing
character for a hollow smiley face, and the sequence "\002" as a solid smiley
face. But readline is also documented as using \1 and \2 a
Thanks for your reply, Mike!
Here's what I'm reading in the man page:
type [-aftpP] name [name ...]
With no options, indicate how each name would be interpreted if
used as a command name. If the -t option is used, type prints a
string which is one of alias, keyword, funct
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>"type -p CMD" normally has a non-zero return status if CMD is not
> found. But if CMD is an alias, the return status is zero even though
> nothing is printed to stdout.
by definition, this is how -p is supposed to work ... my guess is you wa
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-DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
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According to Tony Balinski on 4/3/2007 11:49 AM:
>
> Running bash on Cygwin (taken from Cygwin):
...
> Curiously, under the same conditions on a Red Hat Linux box:
Why didn't you say so in the first place? If this behavior only occurs on
cygwin, the
