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Re: edit-and-execute-command is appropriately named, weird


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: edit-and-execute-command is appropriately named, weird
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 18:42:55 -0400
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On 5/27/11 6:20 PM, David Thomas wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
> Thank you for the response, and the attempt at assistance.
> 
> I was unaware of the POSIX specifications relating to editing modes.
> After reading the specs, however, I don't think they conflict with
> what I propose.  While the description of the [count]v command does
> say that it executes the commands in the temporary file, this cannot
> be required to apply to line editing in the read builtin when run with
> the -e option, as the -e option is not described in the specification
> of read at all and so its behavior is up to the developers here to
> define.

Quite true: it doesn't strictly apply to read -e or to emacs editing mode
at all.  However, the specification is well-suited to being implemented
using `fc', which is also specified by Posix.  It's also never seemed
important enough to disable that particular command when running
`read -e'.

> Note that I am not proposing "edit and keep in buffer" semantics (as
> you provided an example of below, and which would clearly conflict
> with the standard), but rather "edit and accept" which results in
> conformant behavior at the command prompt when the accepted line is
> then processed as a shell command.

That's probably true, but not quite how it works.  The contents of the
edited file are executed directly rather than being placed back into the
editing buffer and accepted because that's how `fc' does its job.  It
would take some work to redo the implementation.

It might be an interesting exercise to reimplement that editing function
as you suggest, and it might even be more closely Posix-conformant, but
I'm not inclined to do it right now.  There are other, higher-priority
issues.  Maybe someday.

In the meantime, the function I provided does what you would like at the
cost of a single extra keystroke.

Chet
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