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In article <8907091203.AA06418@ouareau.iro.umontreal.CA> mcgill-vision!iros1!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard) writes:
   Salut, cher confre`re :-)

      c) Can the &#^*%&! insertion of a * at the beginning of the prompt
	 when a line is edited be turned off?  it appears as well that
	 only the prompt is shifted as well, which is disconcerting if
	 not wrong.

   What's wrong with this?  bash is telling you: there is now an
   undo-list for this command.  This information might be useful,
   especially when you move back in the command history.

I have to agree that the * at the beginning is a BAD THING.  This can
be very annoying at low baud rates, say 1200.  This also is quite
frustrating when you use the universal argument on a command.  In
general, I think that any key sequence that modifies the prompt,
including universal argument, the little *, back and forward search,
should all be optional.  Preferably, they should be removable
independently of one another (I would like to be able to turn off the
* and the arg:, buy keep reverse search sometimes).  Would this be
difficuly to implement?
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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus