Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: shell-expand-line drops quotation marks Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 08:47:38 -0500 Lines: 20 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1446644868 10004 208.118.235.17 (4 Nov 2015 13:47:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Keith Thompson , chet.ramey@case.edu To: Keith Thompson , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020206.563A0C7C.0170, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2013-03-21 17:37:32 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 7a3eab102ebc74ee99aa85631d86a714 X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv3-2015.case.edu) X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020203.563A0C7C.0282,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 64f2c6368e0a775850a5af3b41d1a650 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.194 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11833 On 11/3/15 7:44 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: > The shell-expand-line command (bound to Escape-Ctrl-E) incorrectly removes > quotation marks from > the command line, often resulting in a command that differs from what the > user intended to type. This is the documented behavior. shell-expand-line performs all of the shell word expansions, including quote removal. > I often type Escape-Ctrl-E to expand a history substitution in place > before typing Enter, but it has the side effect of stripping quotes from > what I've already typed. If you want to perform history expansion, try M-^ (history-expand-line). -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/