Re: how to save/restore (all?) bindings

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/19/23 7:29 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> => So seems, that the bind -r has an effect on anything "already
>     queued".
>     It works also when removing after the sleep:
>     bind -x '"\C-f": echo foo; sleep 5; bind -r "\C-a"'

Characters are queued, not readline commands. So if a key binding isn't
there by the time the key sequence is read, there's no action to take.

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