On 9/17/16 11:34 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> "There is no way to run any of the commands that are not bound to a
> keyboard sequence without binding them to a keyboard sequence."
>
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52578/execute-a-readline-function-without-keybinding
>
> Yes that is right, just to run e.g.,
>
> dump-variables
> Print all of the settable readline variables and their values to
> the readline output stream. If a numeric argument is supplied,
> the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part
> of an inputrc file.
>
> once, one has to bind it to a key.
>
> Why can't there be some
>
> $ run_readline_command dump-variables
I would be happy to look at a donated implementation.
Chet
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