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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add active mark, face support; activate mark on paste
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:36 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> On 9/23/19 7:32 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 12:37 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 1/9/19 2:39 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> >>> Any chance we can revive this patch now that Bash 5 is out? (The patch
> >>> itself, of course, would need to be rebased.)
> >>
> >> Yes, I plan to.
> >
> > Have you had a chance to look at the patch?
>
> Sorry, I have not. I need a bigger chunk of time than I've had available
> to figure out the intent of the patches, and whether they're a good idea
> to include in readline, before looking closely at the code.

I've had a people tell me that this patch is very useful for helping
them understand editing operations and pasting. I sent this patch over
a year and a half ago. Should I expect another year and a half of
pinging this thread? :-)