Re: [PATCH] Add active mark, face support; activate mark on paste

[Daniel Colascione]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:20 PM Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:36 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/23/19 7:32 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 12:37 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 1/9/19 2:39 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> > >>> Any chance we can revive this patch now that Bash 5 is out? (The patch
> > >>> itself, of course, would need to be rebased.)
> > >>
> > >> Yes, I plan to.
> > >
> > > Have you had a chance to look at the patch?
> >
> > Sorry, I have not. I need a bigger chunk of time than I've had available
> > to figure out the intent of the patches, and whether they're a good idea
> > to include in readline, before looking closely at the code.
>
> I've had a people tell me that this patch is very useful for helping
> them understand editing operations and pasting. I sent this patch over
> a year and a half ago. Should I expect another year and a half of
> pinging this thread? :-)

Is there anything I can do to get this patch looked at?