Re: Readline Documentation

2024-09-17 Thread John Devin
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 3:24 PM Chet Ramey wrote: > > > I considered that maybe it > > would only do this in response to being set directly, but neither > > ~/.bashrc nor /etc/bash.bashrc on my system include it, nor any other > > file I can find. Unless this has been changed between that version

Re: Readline Documentation

2024-09-16 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/14/24 2:45 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: At 2024-09-13T15:24:15-0400, Chet Ramey wrote: It has no effects in its default state. If you don't change it, nothing happens. If you change it, you change `bell-style' instead. The fact that its usage continues suggests documenting it as depreca

Re: Readline Documentation

2024-09-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-09-13T15:24:15-0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > It has no effects in its default state. If you don't change it, nothing > happens. If you change it, you change `bell-style' instead. > > > The fact that its usage continues suggests documenting it as > > deprecated would be beneficial. > > Maybe.

Re: Readline Documentation

2024-09-13 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/13/24 11:00 AM, John Devin wrote: As you said, it's been deprecated -- and undocumented -- for over 30 years (and remains only for backwards compatibility). There's no reason to document it. I understand it's been superseded, but I do want to point this out: running `bind -v` in bash 5.2

Re: Readline Documentation

2024-09-13 Thread John Devin
Hey Chet, Thanks for getting back so fast. Just a couple points to make. On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 4:38 PM Chet Ramey wrote: > > On 9/11/24 3:19 PM, John Devin wrote: > > While hunting down some problems on a terminal, I ran across the > > option 'prefer-visible-bell'. It took me some time looking

Re: Readline Documentation

2024-09-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 9/11/24 3:19 PM, John Devin wrote: Hello all, Sorry in advance if this is poorly formatted; I used plain-text mode in gmail but who knows if that works properly. It looks just fine. While hunting down some problems on a terminal, I ran across the option 'prefer-visible-bell'. It took me

Readline Documentation

2024-09-11 Thread John Devin
Hello all, Sorry in advance if this is poorly formatted; I used plain-text mode in gmail but who knows if that works properly. While hunting down some problems on a terminal, I ran across the option 'prefer-visible-bell'. It took me some time looking into this before finding out it was deprecated

Re: apparent inconsistencies in readline documentation

2020-07-28 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/28/20 4:21 AM, Daniel Molina wrote: > On 27/7/20 22:09, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 7/25/20 12:21 PM, Daniel Molina wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I found some aspects of readline documentation that seem inconsistent to >>> me and I wanted to share them. &g

Re: apparent inconsistencies in readline documentation

2020-07-28 Thread Daniel Molina
On 27/7/20 22:09, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 7/25/20 12:21 PM, Daniel Molina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I found some aspects of readline documentation that seem inconsistent to >> me and I wanted to share them. >> >> 1. The difference between backward-kill-line and

Re: apparent inconsistencies in readline documentation

2020-07-27 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/25/20 12:21 PM, Daniel Molina wrote: > Hi, > > I found some aspects of readline documentation that seem inconsistent to > me and I wanted to share them. > > 1. The difference between backward-kill-line and unix-line-discard > readline commands. >

apparent inconsistencies in readline documentation

2020-07-25 Thread Daniel Molina
Hi, I found some aspects of readline documentation that seem inconsistent to me and I wanted to share them. 1. The difference between backward-kill-line and unix-line-discard readline commands. Documentation states:    backward-kill-line (C-x Rubout)   Kill backward to the

Re: Readline documentation error

2018-05-26 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/25/18 9:50 PM, Jorge Maldonado Ventura wrote: > There is an unnecessary closing parenthesis under /bracketed-paste-begin > ()/ from section 8.4.3 of /Bash Reference Manual/ Thanks for the report. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vi

Readline documentation error

2018-05-25 Thread Jorge Maldonado Ventura
There is an unnecessary closing parenthesis under /bracketed-paste-begin ()/ from section 8.4.3 of /Bash Reference Manual/ diff --git a/lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi b/lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi index 1c9acdc..d42f6f6 100644 --- a/lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi +++ b/lib/readline/doc/rluser.texi @