Re: Assignment of associative arrays through braces

2018-08-20 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/19/18 10:27 AM, konsolebox wrote: >> This proposal simply requests an intuitively equivalent simple >> assignment syntax for associative arrays just like a='...' and >> a=(...), with same behavior for scoping. >> >> Maybe we can add another option like -G to have similar effect but >> that's

Re: bind -u not working for keyseq starting with \e

2018-08-20 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/6/18 9:33 AM, Hugo Gabriel Eyherabide wrote: > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 18 > Release Status: release > > Description: > > bind -u not working for keyseq starting with \e In the absence of a keymap argument, the `-u' option works in the current keymap (like most of the rest of the b

Re: Add sleep builtin

2018-08-20 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/19/18 10:25 AM, konsolebox wrote: > Hi Chet, > > The sleep command is often used in loops and using the external sleep > is expensive. Perhaps we can add the sleep builtin but have it > disabled by default to avoid syntax conflict with the external one. I don't think there's a problem with