Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!watmath!watcgl!andrewt From: andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: && causing bash to dump core, varia Message-ID: Date: 9 Jul 89 19:08:08 GMT References: <8907091203.AA06418@ouareau.iro.umontreal.CA> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 26 In-reply-to: mcgill-vision!iros1!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU's message of 9 Jul 89 12:03:42 GMT In article <8907091203.AA06418@ouareau.iro.umontreal.CA> mcgill-vision!iros1!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard) writes: Salut, cher confre`re :-) c) Can the &#^*%&! insertion of a * at the beginning of the prompt when a line is edited be turned off? it appears as well that only the prompt is shifted as well, which is disconcerting if not wrong. What's wrong with this? bash is telling you: there is now an undo-list for this command. This information might be useful, especially when you move back in the command history. I have to agree that the * at the beginning is a BAD THING. This can be very annoying at low baud rates, say 1200. This also is quite frustrating when you use the universal argument on a command. In general, I think that any key sequence that modifies the prompt, including universal argument, the little *, back and forward search, should all be optional. Preferably, they should be removable independently of one another (I would like to be able to turn off the * and the arg:, buy keep reverse search sometimes). Would this be difficuly to implement? -- Andrew Thomas andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo "If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus