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Re: [Bug-readline] Disable the "modify history with arrow keys" feature


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] Disable the "modify history with arrow keys" feature
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:22:04 -0500
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On 1/29/19 3:20 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> However, if Bash already has a facility for reverting all history undo
> lists, then it would seem to be easy to simply trigger this by default
> before showing a new prompt, thereby restoring all history lines to
> their original states. 

Since it's the SIGINT that defeats the reverting behavior, we'd have to
see whether that would satisfy John's requirements. It would not work
for an application that, for instance, saved the history before exiting
on SIGINT unless it were incorporated into readline's signal processing.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    address@hidden    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/



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