On 2/2/24 5:15 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 09:50:46AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 03:39:54PM +0100, Mike Jonkmans wrote:[ mkdir test; cd test; touch file1 file2 ]Going into `vi-command' mode on the line `ls *' puts the cursor on the `*'. Then `glob-expand-word' does nothing with the `*', it just inserts a space. Resulting in `ls *' (cursor still on `*'). Expected: nothing happens.I'm not sure what keystrokes you're actually using, or what bind calls you've done leading up to this, but in a vanilla instance of bash with nothing done except 'set -o vi', typing l s space * esc * will replace the * with file1 file2 and another space, and also puts you in insert mode for some reason. Probably historical.esc * is bound to insert-completions
It's bound to vi-complete, which bash replaces with something that does the pathname expansion that POSIX requires.
(which may be better than glob-expand-word, as it doesn't need a glob)
Well, it appends a `*' if the word doesn't have any globbing chars.
If your goal is to be in vi command mode when the command completes, why
not use a macro?
bind -m vi-command '"\C-f":"*\e"
does that.
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