Re: Bash readline remap ESC insert/command mode key

2012-01-25 Thread Roger
>In Vim, I have set the timeout to 200 milliseconds rather than the >default 1000 (one whole second). > >This amounts to a typing speed of c. 5 characters per second or 60 wpm, >a reasonable goal for the average typist. ditto. about half the default is much better. -- Roger http://rogerx.freesh

Re: [bug] Bash translates >&$var into &>$var for exported functions.

2012-01-25 Thread Chet Ramey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/23/12 2:50 AM, Dan Douglas wrote: > Hello, In the case of exported functions, Bash interprets a copy descriptor > followed by an expansion as the >& synonym for &>, resulting in the output > going to a file named as the value of the FD it's give

Re: Bash readline remap ESC insert/command mode key

2012-01-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 07:38:52PM EST, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 1/23/12 8:52 AM, Roger wrote: > > > A little more indepth examination, and I can see VIM's wait is > > approximately double of what the readline patch's wait time is. > > However, I think the shorter wait time is more functional as whe

Re: set -e in (subshells) does not work independently of outer context

2012-01-25 Thread Eric Blake
[re-adding the list - also, please don't top-post on technical lists] On 01/24/2012 06:53 PM, Jim Avera wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. I read the referenced article and don't > think it says that at all. > (http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=52). In fact it seems to imply > that -e *s

Re: echo '-e' doesn't work as expected, or does it?

2012-01-25 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/23/12 5:42 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> you might want to report a bug to suse, here i get: > > It's a bug in --enable-separate-helpfiles: the generated file contains > only one help string for echo, which happens to be the one for !V9_ECHO. It seems like the only way to solve this reliably

Re: Bash readline remap ESC insert/command mode key

2012-01-25 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/23/12 8:22 PM, Roger wrote: >> Patch seems to work great and I can now type 'exit' without command mode >> being spawned when typing the 'i'. >> >> It's behaviour is almost identical to VIM's. > > Found a bug. That's not really related to the timing issue, since the `i' is dropped completel