Re: broken behaviour in vi editing-mod

[Chet Ramey]

> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 2.04
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> In vi editing-mode, f<char> moves forwards to the next <char>,
> t<char> moves forwards to char before the next <char>. F<char>
> searches back to <char> and T<char> searches back to char after 
> <char>
> 
> These can be combined with d, to delete all chars from the cursor
> to a certain char.  All work as expected except deleting back to
> after the named char, which does nothing.

A trivial typo in the source.  If you want to fix it, change the
declaration of `vi_motion' in lib/readline/vi_mode.c so that the
second occurrence of `t' is changed to `T':

*** ../bash-2.05/lib/readline/vi_mode.c Wed Nov  8 11:47:02 2000
--- lib/readline/vi_mode.c      Mon Jul  2 12:10:05 2001
***************
*** 82,86 ****
  
  /* Command keys which do movement for xxx_to commands. */
! static const char *vi_motion = " hl^$0ftFt;,%wbeWBE|";
  
  /* Keymap used for vi replace characters.  Created dynamically since
--- 82,86 ----
  
  /* Command keys which do movement for xxx_to commands. */
! static const char *vi_motion = " hl^$0ftFT;,%wbeWBE|";
  
  /* Keymap used for vi replace characters.  Created dynamically since

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