2 Nov
2017
2 Nov
'17
6:05 a.m.
On 11/1/17 4:37 PM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Bakul Shah <bakul(a)bitblocks.com> wrote:
Yes, you can set a startup hook to preload the buffer contents. Bash
uses that for `read -ei'.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
I think what Ralph wants is something like
"LINES=1 vi"
but without clearing the screen so that commands that
are cursor relative can work. rlwrap and readline don't
edit the current line in the file, only the command input.
OK, that I can understand. It's ages since I played with
readline, but I think you can preload the buffer it works on
(bash does that, no?) so ed + readline could be made to work
that way.