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Re: [Bug-readline] vi-mode and python shell
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Bug-readline] vi-mode and python shell |
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Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:42:29 -0400 |
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On 7/14/15 5:12 PM, Carlos Pita wrote:
> Hi Chet,
>
> I'm having problems using the some vi operators inside the python/ipython
> shell.
>
> Say I have the following line with the cursor at position 0:
>
> ^xxxxxyxxxxx
>
> In the bash prompt dty will result in
>
> ^yxxxxx
>
> But inside the python shell... well, try it yourself, it's hard to
> describe. Sometimes I'm not even able to return to insert mode without
> cancelling the line. One thing is true: ty will work, but dty won't.
Thanks for the report. This was kind of a complicated fix; the reason it
didn't work was that the readline state machine was messed up. I will have
a fix in the next testing release of readline.
Chet
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