Re: blink-matching-paren doesn't blink

2010-11-22 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/22/10 5:24 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote: > In Bash 4.1 downloaded and patched from the case.edu Bash site, when I > do bind -v I see "set blink-matching-paren on" (and have non-working > paren matching) without having changed any compile-time settings and > with no corresponding command in any

Re: blink-matching-paren doesn't blink

2010-11-22 Thread Dennis Williamson
In Bash 4.1 downloaded and patched from the case.edu Bash site, when I do bind -v I see "set blink-matching-paren on" (and have non-working paren matching) without having changed any compile-time settings and with no corresponding command in any startup files. So I don't know how it got (half) ena

Re: blink-matching-paren doesn't blink

2010-11-22 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/22/10 3:36 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote: > When I do > > bind -v > > one of the settings I see is > > set blink-matching-paren on It's not supposed to be enabled by default. (It's also not documented.) Since a function has to run to do the appropriate things when it's enabled, and isn't r

blink-matching-paren doesn't blink

2010-11-22 Thread Dennis Williamson
When I do bind -v one of the settings I see is set blink-matching-paren on but I don't get any blinking when I type closing parentheses at the command line. If I do bind 'set blink-matching-paren on' or have set blink-matching-paren on in my ~/.inputrc explicitly, then it works. Why does