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

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/6/24 4:14 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 02:59:21PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 2/4/24 2:35 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> >
> > > PS: Sadly M-C-r seems to be already taken, so I can't just hop one key over.
> >
> > You can rebind it, you know. Anyway, let's assume the existence of a new
> > bindable command that (shell) quotes the (shell? readline?) words on a
> > line. Let's assume that this new command is bound to some sequence like
> > \C-xq. Then you can use a macro to create something like what you want:
> >
> > "\M-\C-w":"\M-\C-e\C-xq"
> >
> > with each command being separately undoable.
>
> Assuming you want M-C-e, C-xq, Return to be a equivalent to a verbose Return.
> I don't think it is doable that way, please consider:

Well, that's probably true. It argues for a separate bindable
shell-expand-and-requote command so the readline command can get access
to the still-quoted unsplit shell words and quote them appropriately.
All of it can still be individually undoable.

Chet

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