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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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