Package: bash
Version: 4.1-3
Severity: normal
X-Mailer: reportbug 4.12.6
For years I have done command line editing (set editing-mode vi) using
ESC_ to recall the last argument to the previous command typed. When I
have done this over the last year or so, it beeps in addition to doing
the substitution. (Currently seeing this behavior in bash 3.2 and 4.1)
A beep normally means that something is amiss such as trying to find something
that is not there, but in this case, there is nothing wrong; the last argument
gets correctly yanked and is appended to the command line. The beep is
annoying and misleading.
The problem appears to be in file: text.c after line 312. The code is:
312 point = _rl_find_next_mbchar (rl_line_buffer, rl_point, count,
MB_FIND_NONZERO);
313
314#if defined (VI_MODE)
315 if (point >= rl_end && VI_COMMAND_MODE())
316 point = _rl_find_prev_mbchar (rl_line_buffer, rl_end, MB_FIND_NONZERO);
317#endif
318
319 if (rl_point == point)
320 rl_ding ();
321
322 rl_point = point;
If it is in VI_COMMAND_MODE, it modifies point to be the same as rl_point,
tests it, rings the bell, and then sets rl_point = point, which it already was
modified to be. Commenting out lines 315 and 316 eliminate the problem, but
they must have been introduced to solve some other problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 5.9 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii dash 0.5.5.1-6 POSIX-compliant shell
ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii bash-completion 1:1.2-2 programmable completion for the ba
Versions of packages bash suggests:
pn bash-doc <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/bash.bashrc changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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