Re: Feature request: Enable possibility of colored stderr output

2020-09-14 Thread A M
mited capacity for processing information and visual stimuli. Color helps us categorize the instructional stimuli we are presented with." Best Regards Alex On 9/14/20 3:52 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 9/13/20 5:59 AM, A M wrote: Hello, I would like to submit a feature request/suggestion on Bash. (I

Feature request: Enable possibility of colored stderr output

2020-09-13 Thread A M
Hello, I would like to submit a feature request/suggestion on Bash. (I was told submitting to this mailing list was the right way to do it.) Feature request: Enable possibility of colored stderr output. It would be really neat to have functionality that stderr could be output in a different

Feature request: Enable case-insensitive reverse-search-history (C-r)

2020-08-20 Thread A M
Hello, I would like to make a feature request/suggestion on Bash. (I was told submitting to this mailing list was the right way to do it.) Feature request: Enable reverse-search-history (C-r) to be case-insensitive. Currently reverse-search-history is case-sensitive and cannot be changed to

Re: Assignment-like word shouldn't be subjected to tilde expansion in POSIX mode

2020-07-21 Thread M. Nejat AYDIN
On 7/21/20 2:48 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:55:06AM +0300, M. Nejat AYDIN wrote: Also, shouldn't the tilde be expanded following $ echo ~: ? The colon terminates tilde-prefix in an assignment, but there is no assignment involved here. Works for me. unicorn

[PATCH] Use memmove instead of strcpy

2018-07-07 Thread Bernhard M. Wiedemann
In https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1100488 we found that depending on the build machine, bash-4.4's bash.html would contain the string Bahh instead of Bash strcpy can cause corruption when working on overlapping strings so we use memmove instead that handles this case correctly ---

[PATCH] Use memmove instead of strcpy

2018-07-07 Thread Bernhard M. Wiedemann
In https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1100488 we found that depending on the build machine, bash-4.4's bash.html would contain the string Bahh instead of Bash strcpy can cause corruption when working on overlapping strings so we use memmove instead that handles this case correctly ---

Re: Why are long functions slower?

2017-10-16 Thread Bernhard M. Wiedemann
On 2017-10-15 20:53, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: > I have some questions: > > 1. Which specific versions of 4.3 and 4.4? > 2. Did you compile bash from source? (if so, what did you use for CFLAGS and > the configure script parameters? are you >using bash's malloc or the system

Why are long functions slower?

2017-10-10 Thread Bernhard M. Wiedemann
in advance for your insights Bernhard M. [1] https://github.com/g23guy/supportutils/blob/1e89b672d61ac6da5d8cf4a164b529693eab0cd9/bin/supportconfig#L304

Re: Setting IFS='*' causes bash to freeze on tab completion

2016-07-02 Thread Ibrahim M. Ghazal
Thanks for the pointer. I reported it there ( https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/52 ). After further investigation, the problem seems to be that when IFS is set to '*', case *) doesn't get executed. Is this the intended behavior? For example: IFS='*'; case "foo" in *) echo "got

Setting IFS='*' causes bash to freeze on tab completion

2016-07-01 Thread Ibrahim M. Ghazal
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'

Re: cygwin: glob successfully for executables without .exe suffix

2012-09-10 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 9/9/2012 6:52 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: On 9/9/2012 7:52 PM, Gregory M. Turner wrote: I'd be happy to iterate if folks have some good ideas as to how to improve the implementation. Don't forget that the file test operators also need to be able to find the same binary files. Otherwise

cygwin: glob successfully for executables without .exe suffix

2012-09-09 Thread Gregory M. Turner
e6206e337ac4577e4b83ceaac44241f48a2aec50 Author: Gregory M. Turner gmturner...@ameritech.net Date: Sat Sep 8 22:05:06 2012 -0700 lib/glob: cygwin: match executables without .exe suffix On cygwin we have the .exe-hack which is a feature that attempts to make the Windowsy .exe suffix

bash completion issue

2012-04-02 Thread João M . S . Silva
command] [-X filterpat] [-P prefix] [-S suffix] [word] After -sr I pressed tab for auto-completion. The minus was a typo that caused the error. -- João M. S. Silva

can we have checkwinsize by default?

2012-03-09 Thread dooble M
:/sbin' -DSYS_BASHRC='/etc/bash.bashrc' -DSYS_BASH_LOGOUT='/etc/bash.bash _logout' uname output: Linux baboun 3.2.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 27 22:13:59 UTC 2012 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz GenuineIn tel GNU/Linux Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Bash Version: 4.2 Patch Level

[PATCH] HISTTIMEFORMAT should not be set while running existing histexp.tests

2011-06-25 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
. From 3e0dc8781417fe9b7ba665d1bc3b49fd884ba8b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bradley M. Kuhn bk...@ebb.org Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:27:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] HISTTIMEFORMAT should not be set while running existing histexp.tests If it is, the test output is not correct. This change unsets

incremental history i/o? (was Re: A Feature Request for History)

2011-06-16 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
I agree with Marcel's points about keeping a big bash history, although I wasn't sure if discussing why users keep a big bash history was on topic or not. Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote at 13:16 (EDT) on Tuesday: A .bash_history file going back years and years is still only a few megs,

Re: A Feature Request for History

2011-06-13 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Jayesh Badwaik wrote at 03:18 (EDT) on Saturday: Every now and then I want a command from one of the instances of bash to be used in another instance. In that case, the history of bash is not that useful since it is quiet linear in nature and does not store history of all bash instances.

Re: Bash source repository

2011-06-03 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Chet Ramey wrote at 15:59 (EDT) on Thursday: I think there should be a master branch, and a branch that includes posted patches other than those that have been officially released. Then other branches as needed to accommodate developers. I think that could work fine; I'm happy to do my best

Re: Bash source repository

2011-06-02 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Chet Ramey wrote at 17:25 (EDT) on Wednesday: I think this is a great idea. I've already contacted Bradley and encouraged him to go ahead. I'd like to thank him publicly for his offer. Thanks, Chet! It was my pleasure to set this up. Thanks to Jari for the original idea and the first

Re: Bash source repository

2011-05-30 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Michael Witten wrote at 02:34 (EDT): Perhaps (and hopefully) Bradley meant that file moves were separated from any other content changes that might otherwise have occurred simultaneously. I probably did this in some cases and not others. Anyway, what I've got is clearly better than what's on

Re: Bash source repository

2011-05-29 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Chet Ramey wrote on 2009-11-02: Jari Aalto was setting up a git repository of current and older bash versions on savannah. I'll keep him up to date with public versions of bash Bob Proulx wrote on 2009-11-02: It looks like it has just recently been partially implemented.

Re: Bash source repository

2011-05-29 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
I wrote earlier this evening: I humbly suggest that http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git be replaced with this repository above that I've created. The new repository contains everything that the current Savannah one does, but I put much more effort into making commits fine-grained,

formatting typo in bash man page

2008-10-31 Thread Robert M. Day
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-redhat-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'

man page incorrect

2008-05-16 Thread James M. Leddy
Hi, There is an inconsistency between the man page and the texinfo page regarding continue and break. I've attached a patch that addresses this. --- bash-3.2/doc/bash.1 2006-10-03 08:54:26.0 -0400 +++ bash-3.2/doc/bash.1.liketexi 2008-05-16 17:17:11.0 -0400 @@ -6086,10 +6086,9

bug with built-in printf

2006-12-02 Thread Botte, James - James M
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