Re: [Bashburn-info] Dodgy BUG

[Nick W. <ni...@li...>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:31:01 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:

> On Thursday, Sep 25th 2008 at 09:58 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:
> 
> =>OK, I just discovered a dodgy bug.
> =>
> =>Go to any menu, and hit escape key 3 or 4 times.  You get a full
> =>offered a full directory listing.
> =>
> =>I guess we need to assign this key similar to SIGNAL type
> assignment. =>
> =>Nick
> 
> That's a feature. :-)
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what it's hooked up to but it's a readline
> thing, one of the Completing commands. This one completes based on
> all possible commands. It's probably one of these:
> 
>        possible-command-completions (C-x !)
>               List the possible completions of the text before point,
> treating it as a command name.
>        dynamic-complete-history (M-TAB)
>               Attempt completion on the text before point, comparing
> the  text against  lines  from  the  history  list for possible
> completion matches.
> 
> If it's *really* a problem, we could create an inputrc for bb to have
> an alternate initialization of readline.
> 
> As it sits now, it has nothingh to do with bb.

OK.  Is/could it be a problem though?  Is there no way to catch the
escape key?

I mean, who would press escape key 3 or 4 times other than a moron like
me :-)

Nick
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