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Re: EOF not disabled in readline


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: EOF not disabled in readline
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:09:05 -0400
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On 7/24/20 1:32 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> It seems that disabling the EOF character does not have an effect on
> readline. 

No. Readline will bind a few of the special tty characters to their
readline equivalents (controlled by the `bind-tty-special-chars' variable),
but the EOF character is not one of them.

What it does is to save the EOF character -- unless it's been disabled --
and special-case it as the first character read on an otherwise empty
line. It defaults that character to ^D, which remains the default if the
stty eof character is disabled.

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