Re: How should 'vi-yank-pop' be used?

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/27/22 2:38 PM, Matteo Paolini wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.1
> Patch Level: 16
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> I recently discovered Readline's 'yank-pop' and 'vi-yank-pop' commands.
>  From what I understand, 'yank-pop' is supposed to cycle through Bash's
> internal kill-ring
> after yanking the most recent killed text.
> The command works as expected in Emacs mode, but trying to use its
> counterpart in vi mode seems to just return an error (the bell sound
> is played).

Thanks for the report. It looks like this behavior (which happens only at
the beginning of a line) has been around since the original code was
contributed in 2011.

I'll look at it after bash-5.2/readline-8.2 is released.

Chet

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