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From: jclark!jjc@UUNET.UU.NET (James Clark)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: ^ word designator
Message-ID: <8906131046.AA24780@jclark.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 89 10:46:25 GMT
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bash 0.99 doesn't correctly deal with ^ as a word designator.  This
fixes the problem:

*** history.c.dist      Tue Jun 13 11:06:56 1989
--- history.c   Tue Jun 13 11:35:04 1989
***************
*** 985,990 ****
--- 985,991 ----

   get_last:
    if (spec[i] == '^') {
+     i++;
      last = 1;
      goto get_args;
    }

It would be nice if the key binding mechanism was able to cope with
the escape sequences generated by arrow keys.

James Clark
jjc@jclark.uucp