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Article #735slight readline modification
From: Brian Fox
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 23:01
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1989 23:01
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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 13:57:32 NST
From: jeff1@docboy.cs.mun.ca (Jeff Sparkes)
NOTE: it appears that Brian is rabidly anti-vi. Me, I live in
both worlds, but had gotten used to vi in ksh, so I decided to add it
to vi.
I am not rabid anything, and I am not anti-vi. I am pro
good-software. I am pro choice. This means that I will (and have)
included code to handle cases that are not of interest to me, such as
vi mode. I am even willing to spend time cleaning up and merging
other peoples code if enough people want the features.
> grady> I currently use tcsh, and one thing it does that bash's
> grady> readline doesn't is put the cursor at the _end_ of the line
> grady> when you start moving through the history (in either vi or
> grady> emacs mode). Having the cursor at the end is slightly
> better
>
> This is simply false. The cursor moves to the end of the line in
> emacs mode. Perhaps it doesn't do this in vi-mode?
>
> Brian
It doesn't. Sort of makes sense to me that it should be at the end,
but ksh didn't do it that way.
I am not particularly interested in the way that Ksh does things. I
am interested in implementing a good shell, called Bash.
I would imagine that keeping the cursor in the same column is the
right thing.
Brian
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