Re: bash reference munual 5.3 mistype

On 8/7/26 5:00 AM, in_many wrote:
> there are no tab-insert prefix-meta non-incremental-forward-search-
> history-again non-incremental-reverse-search-history-again commands
> specified in the manual but are in the bind -p command.

Thanks for the report. The tab-insert command is documented, but the other
two are not. They're not particularly well-used, but they should be in
there.

> dear developers if we will see this century interactive region
> highlighting for example then setting mark and using left\right moving
> commands?

Most of the code to do that already exists, if you'd like to take a shot
at it.

There is a discussion happening right now about which emacs-mode commands
should set the mark, and where it should be set, which I think is more
important.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2026-07/msg00002.html


> and it will be great to have some variant of erasedups HISTCONTROL
> variable option which allow to make erasing at shell exit but not right
> here and right now as it unpredictable shuffle history item numbers.

You can do that now (after shell exit) using one of the readline examples:
hist_erasedups.c. It works on a history file.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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