Re: wait: mention PID must be a child of this shell

Dan Jacobson wrote: $ help wait doesn't mention that PID must be a child of this shell. Nor does it advise how to wait if PID is not a child of this shell. There's no way to do this, you know. Since the underlying plumbing is not there, there's no need to mention the limitation. Chet --

Re: bash doesn't compile when configured with --disable-bang-history

Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Bash Version: 3.0 Patch Level: 0 Release Status: release Description: It is not possible to selectively disable the history expansion with --disable-bang-history Fixed, thanks. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer (

Re: Bash 3 and $HOME abbreviated with a tilde.

J.O. Aho wrote: Got a bit irritated when updating my Gentoo boxes to use bash 3.00.16, the \W and \w options for the prompt now replaces the home directory name to tilde, I hope I'm not the only one who wants to see the home directory name instead of the tilde. Wouldn't it be possible to

Re: ESC t not ready for Chinese

Dan Jacobson wrote: If I put the cursor between the last two items, $ search 鼓山 福州 and type ESC t, I get $ s 福州 鼓山earch Whereas in real emacs, I correctly get $ search 福州 鼓山 I did some work after 3.0 was released to make forward-word and backward-word work correctly with multibyte

Part 2 follow-up

I realized I didn't send you this in my first email. From: root To: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)] Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: powerpc OS: aix5.2.0.0 Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: