Note also that if the '?' key is bound to auto-completion, the user can still input the '?' character using the readline escape sequence (i.e., in this case "Ctrl-v ?"). So basically it came down to a choice between these:
(1) Keep '?' key as help. To input a '?' character, prefix it with "Ctrl-v". (2) Use some other key sequence for help. A '?' character can be entered directly. At that time, (2) was deemed more acceptable than (1), so we currently have (2). An-Cheng An-Cheng Huang wrote: > That was the first thing I tried when we started implementing the help > system. The problem is when the user actually wants to input a '?' character, > how do we rebind the '?' key back to the actual character? I also tried to > rebind the key after seeing a quote (assuming '?' characters can only appear > in quotes), etc., etc. In the end, this is a limitation in the readline > library (which is used by bash for command line input). We _could_ change > readline, I suppose, somewhere down the road. > > An-Cheng _______________________________________________ Vyatta-users mailing list Vyatta-users@mailman.vyatta.com http://mailman.vyatta.com/mailman/listinfo/vyatta-users
