Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:52:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/libreadline FREEBSD-upgrade rlstdc.h CHANGELOG CHANGES MANIFEST Makefile.in README aclocal.m4 bind.c callback.c complete.c configure configure.in display.c funmap.c histexpand.c histfile.c histlib.h history.c history.h input.c ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908181648410.4840-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <19990818133859.D59206@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, David O'Brien wrote:
> What pisses me off the most about the vi behavor in /bin/sh is:
> /bin/sh
> $ set -o vi
> $ ls
> $ <esc>kA<backspace>
>
> produce a beep rather than performing the backspace.
Weird. Doesn't happen that way here...
Esc-k brings up the previous command ('ls')
'A' moves the cursor to the end of the line.
backspace deletes the 's' of 'ls'.
You have termcap issues or something? (Or maybe I do.)
> Also don't forget libreadline reads ~/.inputrc. Simular functionality
> should be provided.
Indeed.
I'm not advocating changing -all- programs that use libreadline (right
now). I'm advocating doing what is needed to get libreadline out of the
source tree.
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