Meta-keys, spelling correction

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2 total messages Started by Rob McMahon Fri, 14 Jul 1989 12:31

#326

Author: Rob McMahon
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 12:31

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Bash 1.02, assorted BSD and SunOS systems.

Before I can use the meta-key in bash, I have to do `stty pass8'.  Tcsh, jove,
emacs, ... don't have this problem.  Any ideas ?

I use tcsh at the moment, although I'm looking hard at bash.  One of the
things I'd really miss is tcsh's M-$ spell-word command.  This runs through
the word just before the cursor, taking it as a filename (or a command name if
it's the first word on the line), and trying to correct its spelling by
adding, replacing, or deleting a single character, or transposing two
characters, in each pathname component.  I find it absolutely invaluable, I'm
forever typing `/usr/lbi/tex/macros': typing M-$ is so much easier than moving
the cursor back to the right place and typing ^T.

Just a suggestion.

Rob
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Meta-keys, spelling correction

#509

Author: Brian Fox
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1989 18:50

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As usual, just prior to a release, I go through all of the old bug
reports to see which ones have been fixed.  I thought you might like to
know which ones that you reported have been fixed.

   Date: 14 Jul 89 12:31:48 GMT
   From: mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv@uunet.uu.net  (Rob McMahon)
   Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

   Bash 1.02, assorted BSD and SunOS systems.

   Before I can use the meta-key in bash, I have to do `stty pass8'.
   Tcsh, jove, emacs, ... don't have this problem.  Any ideas ?

Sure.  I fixed it, certainly for Suns.

    I use tcsh at the moment, although I'm looking hard at bash.  One of
    the things I'd really miss is tcsh's M-$ spell-word command.  This
    runs through the word just before the cursor, taking it as a
    filename (or a command name if it's the first word on the line), and
    trying to correct its spelling by adding, replacing, or deleting a
    single character, or transposing two characters, in each pathname
    component.  I find it absolutely invaluable, I'm forever typing
    `/usr/lbi/tex/macros': typing M-$ is so much easier than moving the
    cursor back to the right place and typing ^T.

    Just a suggestion.

This is not implemented for 1.03, but I will implement it for a later
version.

Brian Fox

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