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Re: Problem with vi mode in bash 5.0 beta
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Problem with vi mode in bash 5.0 beta |
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Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:54:53 -0500 |
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On 12/12/18 5:32 PM, Stan Marsh wrote:
> (This is all after doing "set -o vi")
>
> In previous versions of bash, I could do the following keys: <Esc> / ^ foo
> <Enter>
> and it would find the most recent command that starts with foo. This is all
> as
> expected.
>
> However, in bash 5.0 beta (self-compiled), this doesn't work. It always
> leaves the
> cursor line empty (as if there was no matching history line). If I leave out
> the ^,
> then it works as expected (but, of course, matches the string anywhere, not
> just at
> the beginning of the line).
These are fixed in bash-5.0-beta2.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/