Re: Readline-8.2-beta available

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/18/22 4:27 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:41:40 -0400
> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> 
>> The first beta release of the GNU Readline library, version 8.2,
>> is now available
> 
>> g. There is a new option: `enable-active-region'. This separates
>> control of the active region and bracketed-paste. 
>> ... Users can now
>> turn off the active region while leaving bracketed paste enabled.
> 
> Apologies for the delayed feedback.  I jut got to looking through
> the release announcement and tried some testing.
> 
> Thanks for work here, but this is not the feature I was trying
> to implement when I sent in my request for help.

That's ok. It doesn't have anything to do with your request, and predates
it by months. The framework for the separate variable was in readline-8.1.
The variable itself came in in April 2021, and has been there in the devel
git branch ever since.

> I'm unclear what it means, operationally, to turn off the
> active region in the way you have implemented.  As near
> as I can tell, it means turning of the highlighting.

Yes, that's the visible effect of the active region.

> I have not tested, but believe that turning off the
> hilighting can already be done by setting the on/off
> terminal strings to empty so I see no reason for the
> enable-active-region feature as-implemented.

Other than it was implemented months before this particular discussion
began. Some people want a simple on-off toggle option. The string variables
came months later as well.

> The feature I was trying to implement would let newlines
> take effect in pasted text with bracketed paste on.

I understand.


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