Re: edit-and-execute-command; minus the "execute" part?

[Dabrien 'Dabe' Murphy]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> On 8/23/10 3:17 PM, Dabrien 'Dabe' Murphy wrote:
> > I'd prefer it if, after exiting my $EDITOR, bash simply stuffed the 
> > results back into my readline buffer.  Particularly, if I decide to 
> > abandon my changes, I find it worrisome that the shell goes ahead and 
> > executes the previous command anyway.  (I guess I've grown accustomed 
> > to SVN's behavior, for example, where if you don't make any changes 
> > to your commit message, it gives you the option to abort the entire 
> > transaction.)
>
> One workaround would be to bind the keystroke to a macro that inserts 
> a comment character at the beginning of the line before doing 
> edit-and-execute-command. Then when you exit the editor the comment 
> will be "executed" then you can press up arrow to retrieve the line 
> and delete the comment character and do further editing then execute it.

"Clever."

It's not /exactly/ what I had in mind, but it certainly addresses the 
issue at hand...  (Thus making it, like you say, a "workaround", hehe.)

Thanks, Dennis!

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