Re: readline questions

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hey Chet.

On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 12:18 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> This is as you discovered: if ESC is part of the set of characters
> that
> terminates an incremental search, it will terminate the search.
> Readline
> doesn't attempt to read far enough ahead to determine whether or not
> the escape sequence resolves to a key binding for reverse-search-
> history
> or, say, backward-char.

I guess it wouldn't possible to have something like that implemented?
Seems that prohibits a number of key sequences that could be quite
handy. Or it could also be nice to differentiate between <Shift> / no-
<Shift> or maybe even left/right <Control> and so on.


> Readline only looks at the value of LS_COLORS when it first
> initializes,
> not on every call. It treats those colors as session-persistent.

I guess that happens on the first prompt being printed? But probably
still after PROMPT_COMMAND is executed the frist time? Cause otherwise
I could use that as a hack to set the "normal" LS_COLORS afterwards.



> Should I move it to the initialization that's done on each call to
> readline()?

Hmm no,... I think the best would be to make the colour simply
configurable as I've asked for over at the readline mailing list. :-)



Thanks,
Chris.