Re: [PATCH] fix bind -X quoting

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/18/23 2:22 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:

> This patch changes rl_macro_dumper to not untranslate the macro body
> when passed a negative print_readably argument.  This is technically an
> API change, so maybe not the best fix, though I doubt it will impact any
> real usage.

Thanks for the report. It seems like your patch is incomplete, though.
After applying it:

$ bind -x '"\eX": echo "x"'
$ bind -X
"\eX": "echo "x""

We probably need to suppress printing the double quotes around `out' if
print_readably < 0.

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