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Re: [Bug-readline] Key sequence initial prefix of another
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Bug-readline] Key sequence initial prefix of another |
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Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:28:44 -0400 |
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On 10/22/10 3:56 AM, Andre Majorel wrote:
> Suppose you have readline bindings of different lengths with the
> same stem, E.G.
>
> "\eg": " | grep "
> "\egi": " | grep -i "
>
> To get
>
> ls | grep 12
>
> you might type "ls[esc]g12" but you'll get
>
> ls1 | grep 2
>
> Is this by design ?
You don't say which version of readline you're using, but I don't get
this behavior on readline-6.0 (from bash-4.0) or readline-6.1 (from
bash-4.1). Both bash versions had all patches applied.
Chet
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