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

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/6/24 3:04 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 2:35 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu 
> <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
>
>     and add a second bindable function -- which would add the same keypress
>     -- to quote the words.
>
>
> Would Bash be saving what the line looked like before it performed quote 
> removal with M-C-e,

It already makes the shell expansions an undoable operation, I think that
would suffice. I'm not talking about changing the behavior of M-C-e, I'm
talking about adding a different function that you could use separately as
well.

> and replacing what's on the command-line with that when 
> this other readline function is invoked? All this talk of a quote-line 
> readline function doesn't make any sense if Bash doesn't know how you want 
> it to be quoted.

There are other places (e.g., ${var@Q} where bash chooses the most 
appropriate form of quoting. Why not here?

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