Re: [Bashburn-info] Dodgy BUG

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Thursday, Sep 25th 2008 at 16:53 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>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 :-)

I'm actually slightly intrigued  by this because I don't see where the 
definition is. The bash man page gives all of the function definitions and 
all of their default bindings. None of the default bindings correspond to 
M-<ESC>. (BTW, to activate it, you don't need to hit it three or four 
times. Exactly two will do it. Or hold the Alt key while hitting escape.)

Intrigued, but not intrigued enough to chase it. ;-)

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