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Re: [Help-bash] Whether line editing disabled, to prevent "bash: bind: w
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Whether line editing disabled, to prevent "bash: bind: warning: line editing not enabled" |
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Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:16:44 -0400 |
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On 7/16/18 9:36 AM, R. Diez wrote:
> May I suggest that Bash provides a way of detecting whether line editing is
> active? I mean a way for a shell script to check the result stored in
> variable no_line_editing.
You can already check whether `vi' or `emacs' is enabled. If neither is
enabled, line editing is not enabled.
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