Re: [Help-bash] gv in vi mode with multiple lines

[Chet Ramey]

> > Readline only works a line at a time.  If the calling application needs to
> > build commands of more than one line, like bash, it constructs them from
> > multiple calls to readline.  Bash does its best to retrieve mult-line
> > commands from the history list and allow the `v' command to edit them, but
> > it can always be made better.
> 
> Just to make sure. So you mean that there is no way to allow
> multi-line for my example in bash yet, but it can be improved. Right?

Sure, anything can be improved if it doesn't do what you want.  Take a
crack at it.

> >> BTW, I don't find where the description of the gv usage. Could anybody
> >
> > I'm not sure what you're trying to do with the `g, since it's not bound to
> > anything.  The `v' command is described in
> 
> I didn't know g was not necessary. My mistake.
> 
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sh.html#tag_20_117_13_03
> 
> This is from sh. Shall you added the document to man bash?

The bindable command is named `edit-and-execute-command', which is already
documented in bash.1.  The vi-mode bindings are what's not listed, but you
have to stop somewhere -- the document is already 75 pages.

Chet

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