Re: About `M-C-e` expand result `'` failed

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/3/24 10:58 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, 02:01 Koichi Murase, <myoga.murase@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I now think I should leave a comment because even Martin (who I believed
> > was one of the careful people about backward compatibility as seen in
> > [1,2]) seems to suggest a breaking change.
>
> That's a fair point.
>
> I am generally concerned about breaking changes that affect existing
> scripts, but I see changes to readline as less problematic, since an
> interactive user gets the chance to check the replacement before hitting
> enter.
>
> Yes users have to learn new behaviours, which isn't ideal, but if my
> suggested "unquote" ("dequote"? "strip-quoting"?) bindable function was
> also added, the impact on users would be minimal: press M-C-e and then a
> second keypress to remove quotes, bringing the input buffer to the same
> state as would occur under the current arrangement.

Or you could leave shell-expand-line alone, which allows users to review
the expanded line and undo it if they wish, and add a second bindable
function -- which would add the same keypress -- to quote the words.

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