Re: blink-matching-paren doesn't blink

[Dennis Williamson]

In Bash 4.1 downloaded and patched from the case.edu Bash site, when I
do bind -v I see "set blink-matching-paren on" (and have non-working
paren matching) without having changed any compile-time settings and
with no corresponding command in any startup files.

So I don't know how it got (half) enabled.

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 11/22/10 3:36 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
>> When I do
>>
>> bind -v
>>
>> one of the settings I see is
>>
>> set blink-matching-paren on
>
> It's not supposed to be enabled by default.  (It's also not documented.)
> Since a function has to run to do the appropriate things when it's enabled,
> and isn't run until it's set explicitly, you don't get the right behavior
> even though readline tells you it's enabled.
>
> Chet
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