Hi Chet, Thanks for explaining your views.
Bash has a facility which I believe is based on binding a key to a string which is executed as if entered at the prompt, is that correct? Or were you referring to something else? Frederick On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 02:53:02PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 5/2/16 5:10 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear Bug-Readline / Chet, > > > > I've been thinking that it would be good if it were possible for users > > to bind key combinations to 'system()' commands in .inputrc. Is this a > > possible improvement for which a patch would be accepted? > > I'd like to see a couple of different implementations of this before > putting it into Readline proper (since it would require extensive > changes to binding and key sequence types). Bash has one, and it works > pretty well. You could use that as a basis for a separate implementation > that would help flesh out the idea and identify any limitations in the > current Readline support. > > Chet > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ > _______________________________________________ Bug-readline mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-readline
