typing ^V to a shell
Paul Fox
pgf at brightstareng.com
Fri Jan 11 16:57:06 UTC 2008
i noticed a while ago that it was impossible to type a TAB
character on the ash commandline. by comparison, gnu readline
allows prefixing any character with ^V to force insertion of the
character -- this is now i normally enter a TAB when using bash.
there was code in lineedit.c to allow this, but it was ifdefed
out along with unrelated features. i've re-enabled it
(unconditionally). along with the fix for 8-bit characters, i
think it's now possible to enter any character (with the possible
exception of NULL) at the commandline.
please holler if there's a problem.
paul
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paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com
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