Re: [Bug-readline] vi-mode and python shell

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/14/15 5:12 PM, Carlos Pita wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
> I'm having problems using the some vi operators inside the python/ipython 
> shell.
> 
> Say I have the following line with the cursor at position 0:
> 
> ^xxxxxyxxxxx
> 
> In the bash prompt dty will result in
> 
> ^yxxxxx
> 
> But inside the python shell... well, try it yourself, it's hard to
> describe. Sometimes I'm not even able to return to insert mode without
> cancelling the line. One thing is true: ty will work, but dty won't.

Thanks for the report.  This was kind of a complicated fix; the reason it
didn't work was that the readline state machine was messed up.  I will have
a fix in the next testing release of readline.

Chet
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