On 3/25/25 11:58 PM, Scott ROCHFORD wrote:
CONFIDENTIAL
Oh?
bash-4.4.20-5.el8.x86_64 & readline-7.0-10.el8.x86_64 on RHEL 8.10
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.4.20(1)-release
$ set -o vi
$ : one
$ : two
$ : three
$ history
1 echo $BASH_VERSION
2 set -o vi
3 : one
4 : two
5 : three
6 history
'<esc>4G' displays :
$ :two
'3G' displays
$ :one
'6G' - or any number greater than 3 - incorrectly displays first entry in
history
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
This was fixed in bash-5.2 to ring the bell and not change the current
line, which is consistent with the POSIX standard for sh vi-mode editing.
Ideally 'G' on its own should jump to 'end-of-history' without having to
remap bindings (would lose <n>G functionality), but as it stands all roads
lead to beginning-of-history.
That's how POSIX says it's supposed to work.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
