>>>>> "Chet" == Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It does, actually. Bash-3.1 key bindings interpret the "\M-" prefix the
> same way that the dispatch code does: if the convert-meta flag has been
> set, the sequence is converted into an escape-prefixed sequence and
> bound accordingly. If that variable is off, the eighth bit is turned
> on (`metafying' the following character).
> What bash-3.1/readline-5.1 did not do (and has been changed since) is
> change the code that bind -p calls to list key bindings to not use
> the \M- prefix for escape-prefixed key sequences when convert-meta is
> off.
> The following sequence of commands should illustrate the difference.
> The cat -v is in there to make the M-p visible.
Hi, thanks for your reply! With bash2, I can simply modify the output
of `bind -vp` and read back the keybinding by `bind -f`. How can I
make it to work with bash3 too?
Thanks,
-Yong
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