Re: strange 'delayed' aliases

2009-12-30 Thread Jonathan Claggett
> > There is certainly unexpected behavior going on here. I'll take a closer > look, but fixes will have to wait until bash-4.2 (or a patch to bash-4.1 > if the problem is widespread). 4.2 would be fine but not before please! I'm still scheming how best put this feature to "good" use in my "frie

strange 'delayed' aliases

2009-12-22 Thread Jonathan Claggett
Hi all, I'm not sure if this is a bug or not but it certainly caught me by surprise. I accidentally created an alias ending with a backslash and a newline today and the resulting alias proceeded to grab the text on the line _after_ I ran it. For example: *$* echo $BASH_VERSION 4.0.33(1)-release *