On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 11:20:56PM EDT, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > Is there a 4.0 .deb available..?
> A bash 4.0 .deb is available in Debian's experimental distribution. I > don't know if the dependencies it was compiled with are available in > Lenny or Squeeze or not as it would have matched Unstable at one time > and so you would need to check. Even if it isn't available (yet) due > to the dependencies you could use it as the basis of a backport to > Lenny. Thanks. But I feel that bash is too central a piece of the system for s/o like me to experiment with, so I'll live with it for now. A minor change in my habits appears to provide a workaround: hitting CTRL+L prior to hitting CTRL+A/E. CJ