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: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:12:35 -0500 Lines: 24 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <563A0C7A.8030504@case.edu> <563A1A14.5060609@draigBrady.com> 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 1446815567 11528 208.118.235.17 (6 Nov 2015 13:12:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Keith Thompson , bug-bash@gnu.org, chet.ramey@case.edu To: Keith Thompson , =?UTF-8?Q?P=c3=a1draig_Brady?= Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 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=0001.0A020206.563CA744.011D,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: e1e39993721b72c041b3cf82e738c959 X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1-2015.case.edu) X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020204.563CA744.01E7,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: 861d6874c341b665e1f9b0db406774ec X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.226 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:11842 On 11/4/15 1:48 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: > Thanks, I didn't know about history-expand-line. > > Is there some case where shell-expand-line would actually be useful? > If I've typed *"foo bar"*, I can't think of any case where I'd *want* > it to be replaced by *foo bar*, which has a very different meaning. > Of course the obvious answer is not to use it, but I'm wondering why > it's there. Sure, when you want to expand aliases or variables in the command before executing it. It's only the quote removal that you -- in this case -- don't want. You can also undo the word expansions after viewing them, restoring the quoted strings. There are separate bindable commands for history expansion, alias expansion, and history-and-alias expansion. If you don't want the rest of the word expansions, you can easily rebind the commands. Chet -- ``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/