Zachary Santer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
>>
>> This has never been documented.
>>
>> In theory, since it's never been documented, I could flip the define in
>> config-top.h and disable it by default. I thought about doing that for
>> bash-5.2, but did not.
> It's never been documented, and you discourage its use, just because
> you don't like the syntax that you created? If ${parameter^^} means
> upper case, and ${parameter,,} means lower case, ${parameter~~} fits
> the theme. What's not to like? Would you rather use ~ in a parameter
> expansion to mean something else in the future?
This is my thinking as well.
It's also intuitive for vi users, as it's the same key to perform the same
function. I see no issue with this feature.
