Re: [Bug-readline] key bindings proposal

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/6/16 4:47 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
>> I don't know as much about R as I know about the shell, but I would think
>> that R could implement something -- it's a language of sorts, right? --
>> that would expose rl_point and rl_line_buffer to the user and then capture
>> changes to those variables.  Those changes could be fed back to readline
>> in the same way that bash feeds back modifications to READLINE_LINE and
>> READLINE_POINT.  If you wanted to implement this small inter-process
>> protocol you described, you could do it there and see how it works out.
>> Maybe that mechanism  could be an option if this makes it into readline
>> itself.
> 
> This isn't a solution that I would be interested in helping out with.

I'm sorry to hear that.  I will keep your original proposal on the list of
future features to add to Readline.

Chet

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