Documentation error

2018-05-18 Thread Jorge Maldonado Ventura
> After the string is decoded, it is expanded via parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal, subject to the value of the |promptvars| shell option (see _Bash Builtins_). The documentation should point to the *The Set Builtin*, which is the section that cove

[PATCH] Add shopt to enable writing history to syslog at runtime

2018-05-18 Thread Luca Boccassi
Currently writing history to syslog can be enabled at compile time by editing config-top.h and rebuilding. To allow more flexibility, and to allow users of distributions to enable this feature at runtime without having to rebuild bash, add a "syslog" shopt. To maintain backward compatibility keep u

[PATCH] Add nofirstword completion option

2018-05-18 Thread Luca Boccassi
Network operating systems traditionally have provided a command line interface with "operation mode" and "configuration mode", with different auto-completion behaviour - specifically, with a small set of supported commands that are printed using the auto-completion shortcut key, depending on the mo