On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 at 05:19, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > The bind -x execution code could restore the terminal settings to icanon > mode before executing the command, and then set them back to what readline > is using (-icanon) before returning. This is not backwards compatible > and would break all the bind -x bindings that assume the terminal is the > way readline set it, so I'm not inclined to do it. >
This would seem to indicate a requirement for two different bind options, the existing one that assumes the sub-process does not interact with the terminal (or expects the terminal to be in raw mode), and a new one that provides a shortcut for "replace the current input buffer and submit it as if the user had pressed enter". Then again, one could simply define the function key as ^E^Ufg^J Perhaps what's really needed is to make sure that "ordinary" commands bound using bash -x are completely broken (so people won't try to use them), rather than almost working. -Martin
