read & presetting the text to read

[Johannes Zellner]

Hi,

I've a shell script which uses

#v+
    default=bla
    read -e -p "some prompt [$default] " reply
    if test "x" != "x${reply}"; then
        echo "${reply}"
    else
        echo "${default}"
    fi
#v-

now I'd rather like the $default to be stuffed into readline's
input line which is possible in readline AFAIK, but I don't know
how to do it in bash.

Example: I'd like to have a prompt and a preset text like this:

#v+
    prompt> this text should be editable
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#v-

where the cursor is behind the end of the line and everything which is
underlined is editable and returned in the variable 'reply'.

Is this possible with bash and how ?

Any help much appreciated.

-- 
   Johannes