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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add active mark, face support; activate mark on paste
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 08:34:13 -0500
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On 1/8/20 2:38 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:20 PM Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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? :-)
> 
> Is there anything I can do to get this patch looked at?

I haven't taken the time to sit down and look at it.  That's my bad.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/