history bug, and suggestions

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2 total messages Started by Chris Thewalt Sat, 11 Nov 1989 17:40

#697

Author: Chris Thewalt
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 17:40

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First an apparent bug (1.04 on Microvax II, Ultrix 2.2). The !*
history mechanism expands to the zero'th word if the previous line was a
single word. It should expand to the null string in that case.

Suggestions:
1) add a prompt string code similar to \w that just includes the basename
   of the current directory (the last part after the final /).

2) provide a mechanism to rebind keys on the fly, .inputrc is nice but I
   would like to able to do this from the shell.

Chris (thewalt@ce.cmu.edu)
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history bug, and suggestions

#698

Author: Brian Fox
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 17:59

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   Posted-Date: 11 Nov 89 17:40:02 GMT
   Date: 11 Nov 89 17:40:02 GMT
   From: thewalt@PT.CS.CMU.EDU  (Chris Thewalt)
   Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

   First an apparent bug (1.04 on Microvax II, Ultrix 2.2). The !*
   history mechanism expands to the zero'th word if the previous line was a
   single word. It should expand to the null string in that case.

Thanks, I have received this bug report, and fixed the relevant bug.

   Suggestions:
   1) add a prompt string code similar to \w that just includes the basename
      of the current directory (the last part after the final /).

\W does exactly that already.

   2) provide a mechanism to rebind keys on the fly, .inputrc is nice but I
      would like to able to do this from the shell.

C-x C-r re-reads the ~/.inputrc file.  Clumsy, but possible.

Brian Fox

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