X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:39:55 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] Backport shellword movement functions from bash 4.1 Message-ID: <20101102233955.GB18359@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20101102204855 DOT 153395100 AT gmail DOT com> <20101102205036 DOT 943395100 AT gmail DOT com> <4CD07B02 DOT 8070301 AT redhat DOT com> <4CD07E53 DOT 5050602 AT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CD07E53.5050602@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:10:43PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >On 11/2/2010 1:56 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 11/02/2010 02:49 PM, dan.colascione wrote: >>> >>> + rl_add_defun ("shell-forward-word", bash_forward_shellword, -1); >>> + rl_add_defun ("shell-backward-word", bash_backward_shellword, -1); >>> + rl_add_defun ("shell-kill-word", bash_kill_shellword, -1); >>> + rl_add_defun ("shell-backward-kill-word", bash_backward_kill_shellword, -1); >> >> Hmm, here, it probably makes more sense for me to bite the bullet and >> port my cygwin-specific stuff from bash 3.2 into bash 4.1, rather than >> trying to backport bash 4.1 stuff into my cygwin 3.2 build. >> > >Getting 4.1 would be better, sure, but it's not available right now, You know you're communicating with the bash package maintainer, right? If he thinks that it makes sense to upgrade to a new version rather than rolling a new, patched older version, then you can't really use the "4.1 isn't available" argument since his point is that he could make it available. He's probably the only person who understands the tradeoffs. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple