Re: Binding Containing Escape Key Fails to Escape History Search

2019-11-04 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/31/19 6:32 PM, sunnycemet...@gmail.com wrote: On 2019-10-30 13:40, Chet Ramey wrote: Incremental search doesn't do macro translation like that. I see.  Is this considered a shortcoming? Being able to bind \ef and Alt+f to different commands in various programs is useful, but without ba

Re: Issues with history substitution and its documentation

2019-11-04 Thread Jim Monte
Related to the issues with the ? event designator, the %word designator substitutes the *first* word matched by the ? event designator or nothing if the match begins with a space. These details are not documented. [root@localhost ~]# echo a b c d >/dev/nul [root@localhost ~]# echo !?b c? echo ech