On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 10:34:14 -0400 Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/18/22 4:27 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:41:40 -0400 > > Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The first beta release of the GNU Readline library, version 8.2, > >> is now available > > > >> g. There is a new option: `enable-active-region'. > > Apologies for the delayed feedback. > That's ok. It doesn't have anything to do with your request, Good. I didn't want to drop the ball and not pay attention when somebody else is doing work "for me". > > I'm unclear what it means, operationally, to turn off the > > active region in the way you have implemented. As near > > as I can tell, it means turning of the highlighting. > > Yes, that's the visible effect of the active region. Thanks. (Good to know I'm got a bit of a grip. :) > Some people want a simple on-off toggle option. Makes sense. I am always looking for ways to turn off color and hilighting. (Apparently I've done enough of that in my ~/.bashrc that the active region already does not highlight, without having to touch readline's configuration.) Looking at the enable-active-region docs in readline.3 something seemed awkward. Hard to say if this is better, but consider replacing the sentence: The active region shows the text inserted by bracketed-paste and any matching text found by incremental and non-incremental history searches. With: Bracketed pasteing and history searches activate the region, showing the text pasted and the history found. Regards, Karl <[email protected]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein
