Re: About `M-C-e` expand result `'` failed

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/2/24 3:36 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> First of all, I'd like to direct your attention back to the original email 
> in this thread, by A4-Tacks:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2024-01/msg00132.html 
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2024-01/msg00132.html>
> That looks a lot more like a bug, and I'm sorry I distracted from it with 
> my statement questioning what shell-expand-line was doing in the more 
> general case.

You didn't distract. I just haven't gotten to working on that yet.

> On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 1:26 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu 
> <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Are you then suggesting a bindable readline function to quote the line
>     or region? It's not reasonable to change a function that has worked one
>     way for 30+ years.
>
> Ultimately, what I'm saying is that a different bindable function that 
> performs all the shell expansions other than quote removal would be more 
> useful than shell-expand-line.

OK, I'll take that as a feature request for a future version.

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