Feature request for Bash

[Ryan Campbell Cunningham]

Configuration Information [Automatically generated]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' 
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' 
-DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib 
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 
-Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
uname output: Linux ryan-MacBook 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed 
Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 4.2
Patch Level: 45
Release Status: release

Description:
    I would like to request that Bash delete the character
    immediately preceding a '#', provided the '#'

       * does not begin a new word,
       * is not included in any quoted string or variable,
       * is not preceded by a '\', and
       * is only found in an interactive command line (not
         in a script* or Bash initialization argument).

    An exception: If the character immediately preceding
    is also a '#', Bash should skip backward to the previous
    non-'#' character and delete as much characters as the
    number of consecutive '#' characters after them in the
    same word.

    Before enabling this feature, Bash should check if the
    terminal has support for the Backspace key and/or for
    the Delete key. If Bash could not find support for
    either key, then this feature should be enabled and any
    attempt to disable this feature should be denied. There
    should also be options to manually enable this feature,
    if either key is broken but still works, or if both keys
    are broken but still work. Those options should be

       * to enable the feature through a command line**;
       * to enable the feature through a "bashrc" or
         "bash_profile" file, which Bash loads at startup***;
         and
       * to enable the feature through a build-time option.

    The build-time options should be to hard-code the feature
    so it is always enabled****, or to allow the user to enable
    and disable it*****.

    (The request was inspired by an article in the seventh
    edition of the UNIX Programmer's Manual. This feature
    is not required by POSIX, but came from the traditional
    Bourne shell.)

    *Bash should be able to enable this feature in a script
    by force (using the --sd-script-force initialization
    option and the "sd-script-force" "shopt" option).

    **Either through the "shopt" option "sharp-delete" or the
    initialization command "bash --sharp-delete".

    ***In the same manner as is done on a command line.

    ****Through the "configure" option
    "--with-sharp-delete-always".

    *****Or to not build it at all, with the option
    "--without-sharp-delete" or the option "--no-sharp-delete".