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Article #739

Re: slight readline modification

#739
From: Steven Grady
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

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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
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