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Article #739Re: slight readline modification
From: Steven Grady
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1989 18:08
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1989 18:08
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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 bfox>This is simply false. The cursor moves to the end of the line in bfox>emacs mode. Perhaps it doesn't do this in vi-mode? Oops. I confused myself somehow. Right, in emacs-mode it does the Right Thing (IMHO). In vi-mode it don't. And speaking of vi-mode problems, the 'dw' and 'cw' commands don't work quite right. They stop 1 character early. Steven ...!ucbvax!grady grady@postgres.berkeley.edu "Guards, beat this man brutally for daring to try to confuse me!"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!snorkelwacker!genbank!ames!fxgrp!news From: grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: slight readline modification Message-ID: <1989Nov16.180828.19985@fxgrp.fx.com> Date: 16 Nov 89 18:08:28 GMT Reply-To: grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady) Distribution: gnu Organization: FXDevelopment, Mountain View, CA Lines: 20