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Re: [Bug-readline] For users of the "vi" keymap, please enable "show-mod
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Bug-readline] For users of the "vi" keymap, please enable "show-mode-in-prompt" by default |
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Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:23:17 -0500 |
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On 12/12/14 11:25 AM, Jason Spiro wrote:
> The new bash 4.3 and readline 6.3 include a new user-settable
> variable: "show-mode-in-prompt". It was designed for people who use
> readline's vi keymap. It adds a character to the beginning of the
> prompt, showing whether readline is in "command mode" or "insert
> mode".
>
> Thank you for adding this useful feature to readline. Unfortunately,
> it's off by default. And so only those who know about the feature
> will get to take advantage of it.
>
> I would imagine that the vast majority of vi keymap users will want it to be
> on.
Maybe. Nobody has any data to say whether that's so, though. There
certainly hasn't been a flood of requests to enable it by default.
> I wonder if you could please enable it by default? This way, anytime
> that a user enables readline's vi keymap, the mode indicator will
> instantly appear. Anyone who doesn't want it can edit their
> ~/.inputrc file and disable it themselves.
I will keep it in mind for a future version. I've been burned more often
by features that I enable by default when they are introduced than
features I changed to be enabled by default in later versions as the
result of user requests.
> P.S. Thank you very much for maintaining bash and readline --
> highly-featureful, well-documented software packages that numerous
> people rely on every single day.
Thanks for your kind words. I appreciate them.
--
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU address@hidden http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/