For what it's worth, bash also uses Emacs-style line editing. The difference between bash and erl is that bash will exit when there's nothing after the prompt and ctrl-d is received. When there is something after the prompt, bash will either delete the following character, if it exists, or ring the bell.
As an emacs user, I recognize all the oddities of various forms of emacs emulation 🙂 Something I'll lob into this conversation as well is that erl has a `q()` function that exits the shell. I'd love if IEx had a `q()` or `exit()` or something of that nature. On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 9:47:54 PM UTC-7, Robb Shecter wrote: > > Interesting - edlin.erl is implementing some emacs functions: > > https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/stdlib/src/edlin.erl#L22 > > And ctrl-d actually has a function, which I didn't realize - as in emacs, > to delete the character ahead of the cursor: > > https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/stdlib/src/edlin.erl#L189 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/6a8ff525-bb51-44de-ba46-658cda11fb74%40googlegroups.com.
