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Re: Browsing the history of commands. Inconsistency between Bash and Ema


From: Dani Moncayo
Subject: Re: Browsing the history of commands. Inconsistency between Bash and Emacs
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:01:28 +0100

>>   The use of C-p and C-n for this is pervasive and long-lived.  There is
>> no reason to break 25 years of backwards compatibility and compatibility
>> with other shells to make this change.
>
> I thought that compatibility with GNU Emacs was important too.
> Perhaps the proposed (Emacs-compatible) behavior could be made
> optional?

Actually, we are already talking about an option in bash: the "emacs"
option (set -o emacs), which according to the manual [1], is meat for
"Use an emacs-style line editing interface".  Well, IMHO, Bash
currently fails to achieve that goal.

-- 
Dani Moncayo

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html, and look
there for "-o option-name".



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