Re: last `set option value' always passed as $1 and $2 during a 'source' ??

[Sven Mascheck]

Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> [...] When I comment out the ``set horizontal-scroll-mode on' in the
> calling shell, I don't see these funny options. It appears that the last
> ``set option value'' is always given as $1 and $2 to a source'd script.

You're clearly confusing the set command of readline (p.48) 
and the set built-in of bash (p.81)  %-)

The former is for your INPUTRC or the bind command of readline.