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Re: [Bug-readline] Support POSIX pattern matching in history search
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Bug-readline] Support POSIX pattern matching in history search |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:15:12 -0400 |
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On 8/17/16 5:44 PM, John W wrote:
> The issue is well described here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/292967
> I just wanted to make sure there was a bug for it.
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> POSIX apparently specifies that shell glob characters can be used in
> history search (such as '*'), but it is not yet implemented in
> readline.
Thanks for the report. This is apparently a feature that was added to
Posix after the initial readline vi mode implementation (the original
1992 standard specified only string matching, so I suspect it was issue 6
in 2004). I will add this feature after bash-4.4/readline-7.0 are
released.
> It seems that both emacs and vi mode are affected (though I only use vi mode).
Posix only specifies vi mode.
Chet
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