Re: [bash 4.2] In vi mode, cc failed to change the whole line

[Mun]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 08:43 PM PST, Clark J. Wang wrote:
CJW> For example, in vi insert mode, I first enter a command like this:
CJW> 
CJW> # hello world
CJW> 
CJW> Then I press ESC and type cc, the cursor just moves to the beginning (under
CJW> the char `h') and the whole line is not emptied. If I type more chars after
CJW> cc, only the first `h' char is replaced and following `ello world' keeps
CJW> unchanged. Note that other vi mode commands like cw and c$ work fine.

I noticed a similar phenomenon when the vi command 'dd' is entered.
Bash no longer deletes the entire line, it just moves the cursor to the
first char.  I'm using readline v6.2 and bash v4.2 on RHEL5.6 .

Regards,

-- 
Mun


CJW> I'm using Debian 6.0 (i686) and here's some of my system info:
CJW> 
CJW> # bash --version
CJW> GNU bash, version 4.2.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
CJW> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
CJW> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
CJW> >
CJW> 
CJW> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
CJW> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
CJW> # dpkg -l | grep -E 'readline|ncurses'
CJW> ii  libncurses5                        5.7+20100313-5               shared
CJW> libraries for terminal handling
CJW> ii  libncurses5-dev                    5.7+20100313-5
CJW> developer's libraries and docs for ncurses
CJW> ii  libncursesw5                       5.7+20100313-5               shared
CJW> libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)
CJW> ii  libreadline5                       5.2-7                        GNU
CJW> readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
CJW> ii  libreadline6                       6.1-3                        GNU
CJW> readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
CJW> ii  ncurses-base                       5.7+20100313-5               basic
CJW> terminal type definitions
CJW> ii  ncurses-bin                        5.7+20100313-5
CJW> terminal-related programs and man pages
CJW> ii  ncurses-term                       5.7+20100313-5
CJW> additional terminal type definitions
CJW> ii  readline-common                    6.1-3                        GNU
CJW> readline and history libraries, common files
CJW> # ldd /usr/local/bash-4.2.0/bin/bash
CJW>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7730000)
CJW>         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb76ec000)
CJW>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb76e8000)
CJW>         libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb75a1000)
CJW>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7731000)
CJW> #
CJW> 
CJW> By the way I don't understand why there's no libreadline in the output of
CJW> `ldd bash'. Anyone can explain?
CJW> 
CJW> -- 
CJW> Clark