thewalt@RITZ.ce.cmu.edu (Chris Thewalt) (11/12/89)
First an apparent bug (1.04 on Microvax II, Ultrix 2.2). The !* history mechanism expands to the zero'th word if the previous line was a single word. It should expand to the null string in that case. Suggestions: 1) add a prompt string code similar to \w that just includes the basename of the current directory (the last part after the final /). 2) provide a mechanism to rebind keys on the fly, .inputrc is nice but I would like to able to do this from the shell. Chris (thewalt@ce.cmu.edu) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Christopher Robin Thewalt These opinions are not necessarily thewalt@ce.cmu.edu shared by my employer... Carnegie Mellon University
bfox%vision@HUB.UCSB.EDU (Brian Fox) (11/12/89)
Posted-Date: 11 Nov 89 17:40:02 GMT
Date: 11 Nov 89 17:40:02 GMT
From: thewalt@PT.CS.CMU.EDU (Chris Thewalt)
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
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First an apparent bug (1.04 on Microvax II, Ultrix 2.2). The !*
history mechanism expands to the zero'th word if the previous line was a
single word. It should expand to the null string in that case.
Thanks, I have received this bug report, and fixed the relevant bug.
Suggestions:
1) add a prompt string code similar to \w that just includes the basename
of the current directory (the last part after the final /).
\W does exactly that already.
2) provide a mechanism to rebind keys on the fly, .inputrc is nice but I
would like to able to do this from the shell.
C-x C-r re-reads the ~/.inputrc file. Clumsy, but possible.
Brian Fox