Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/06/11:05:57
On 2/6/06, Eric Blake <ericblake AT XXXXXXXXX> wrote:> > After installing the latest readline updates (that fixed the earlier> > prompt issue) I'm finding an issue with the vi command line interface.> >> > Basically, when I hit [ESC] then fwd slash (/) to search through the> > history, it throws my cursor back to get beginning of the line (on top> > of the prompt) and acts weird. This is in mrxvt, now if I do the same> > in the basic cygwin bash shell i get this:> >> > v468929 AT TRD-CAX40JXD ~> /> > ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺>> I could not reproduce this with a quick check (I normally> use set -o emacs, so I am practically clueless about> vi mode). Also, I normally use a multiline prompt, which> may be impacting things. I tried:>> $ echo $PS1> \[\e]0;\w\a\e[0m\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \ \[\e[35m\](${PIPESTATUS[*]}) \[\e[33m\]~\[\e[0m\]\n\$> eblake AT eblake (0) ~> $ echo hi> hi> eblake AT eblake (0) ~> $ [ESC]/e[ENTER] # those four keystrokes rewrite this line as:> $ echo hi # with the cursor on the e>>> What is your PS1? What settings do you have in your ~/.inputrc?>> One other thing to be aware of - readline 5.1 official patch 2> was released this weekend, so I need to make a 5.1-3 cygwin> release soon to incorporate it (it dealt with initialization issues> with line-wrapping). I don't know if your bug would have been> fixed by official patch 2, or whether I should spend more time> investigating this first.>> --> Eric Blake> volunteer cygwin readline maintainer>> --> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/>>
Eric,
Basically, when using VI as the command line editor the [ESC] puts theline into command mode (just like pressing [ESC] within VI) then the /says search (again it's the same command within VI) for whatever youtype next. So, "/ls" would return the latest command line thatincluded the letters "ls" and i can then press "n" to get the nextoccurrence and "N" to move the opposite direction through the history,it's quite handy.
Here is my PS1:
echo $PS1\[\e]61;\u@\H\007\]\u@\H \W>
Here is my .inputrc (i've tried commenting out the whole thing,commenting out sections and uncommenting sections, nothing seems tomake a difference except emacs/vi):
# the following line is actually# equivalent to "\C-?": delete-char"\e[3~": delete-char
# VT#"\e[1~": beginning-of-line#"\e[4~": end-of-line
# kvt#"\e[H": beginning-of-line#"\e[F": end-of-line
# rxvt and konsole (i.e. the KDE-app...)"\e[7~": beginning-of-line"\e[8~": end-of-line"\eOc": forward-word"\eOd": backward-word
# VT220#"\eOH": beginning-of-line#"\eOF": end-of-line
set keymap viset editing-mode vi
# Allow 8-bit input/outputset meta-flag onset convert-meta offset input-meta onset output-meta on$if Bash # Don't ring bell on completion set bell-style none # or, don't beep at me - show me set bell-style visible # Filename completion/expansion set completion-ignore-case on set show-all-if-ambiguous on # Expand homedir name set expand-tilde on # Append "/" to all dirnames set mark-directories on set mark-symlinked-directories on # Match all files set match-hidden-files on$endif
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