Re: What exactly does "read -e" do? bind weirdnesses

[Chet Ramey]

Rocky Bernstein wrote:
> Many thanks for the explanation. I've just updated bashdb CVS to add an
> edit style (emacs/vi) and which will give more complete readline
> handling in entering debugger commands.
> 
> There still is some weirdness in how history retrieval works, but I need
> to isolate what's going on there.
> 
> And it looks like in bash 4.0 alpha there is a problem regaring this
> particular case.

Actually, I tested in bash-4.0 and got the right results before I tried
bash-3.2.  What are you seeing?

> It would be really great to note somewhere in the "bind" and "read"
> builtin sections (if not also under "set' and "emacs and 'vi"  that
> there is some interaction between these settings and how the bind and
> read builtins work. If you want me to suggest some text, I'd be happy to.

The thing that would probably have done the most good is an error message:
(bind: line editing not enabled).

Chet
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