Re: ksh emacs search-history misbehaviour

2021-09-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 02:29:57AM +0100, ropers wrote: > I appreciate not everyone is as verbose as I can be, but your initial > email was very terse. For example, when you say: > > > in emacs search-history mode, abort if ^@ is encountered > > is that the desired behaviour or the problem

Re: ksh emacs search-history misbehaviour

2021-09-18 Thread ropers
I appreciate not everyone is as verbose as I can be, but your initial email was very terse. For example, when you say: > in emacs search-history mode, abort if ^@ is encountered is that the desired behaviour or the problem behaviour? >From testing, it seems like the current behaviour is that

Re: ksh emacs search-history misbehaviour

2021-09-18 Thread Alexander Hall
Ping. Please don't be discouraged or scared just because it's a diff to ksh(1). It really is rather simple. Noone else ever ran into this ksh command line history search bug? /Alexander On September 14, 2021 12:17:22 AM GMT+02:00, Alexander Hall wrote: >in emacs search-history mode, abort if

ksh emacs search-history misbehaviour

2021-09-13 Thread Alexander Hall
in emacs search-history mode, abort if ^@ is encountered This has been bugging me for ages, and I finally realized it was me accidentally pressing Ctrl+, rendering ^@ (a.k.a '\0' or NUL) Easily tested with: Ctrl+R Ctrl+ ... Minimal investigation, for reference: bash: misbehaves in a slightly