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Re: edit-and-execute-command is appropriately named, weird
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: edit-and-execute-command is appropriately named, weird |
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Tue, 31 May 2011 12:20:54 -0400 |
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On 5/31/11 11:44 AM, David Thomas wrote:
> Oh, I wasn't asking you to do it, I was volunteering to. I just
> wanted to be sure there wasn't some overriding reason it was done the
> way it was, and that there wouldn't be too many people relying on the
> present behavior. As it is, I think I'll be taking a swing at it once
> my home internet is hooked up (which should be any day now...).
Please do. I'd be very interested in what you come up with. I'm sure
you're aware that the current function definition lives in bash
(bashline.c) rather than readline proper; if you implement there you
can employ all of the functionality bash provides.
Chet
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