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Add new 'nobackslashctrl' shell option; other minor editor tweaks
The following emacs editor 'feature' kept making me want to go back to bash. I forget a backslash escape in a command somewhere. So I go back to insert it. I type the \, then want to go forward. My right arrow key, instead of moving the cursor, then replaces my backslash with garbage. Why? The backslash escapes the following control character at the editor level and inserts it literally. The vi editor has a variant of this which is much less harmful. It only works in insert mode and the backslash only escapes the next kill or erase character. In both editors, this feature is completely redundant with the 'stty lnext' character which is ^V by default -- and works better as well because it also escapes ^C, ^J (linefeed) and ^M (Return). [In fact, you could even issue 'stty lnext \\' and get a much more consistent version of this feature on any shell. You have to type two backslashes to enter one, but it won't kill your cursor keys.] If it were up to me alone, I'd simply remove this misfeature from both editors. However, it is long-standing documented behaviour. It's in the 1995 book. Plus, POSIX specifies the vi variant of it. So, this adds a shell option instead. It was quite trivial to do. Now I can 'set --nobackslashctrl' in my ~/.kshrc. What a relief! Note: To keep .kshrc compatibile with older ksh versions, use: command set --nobackslashctrl 2>/dev/null src/cmd/ksh93/include/shell.h, src/cmd/ksh93/data/options.c: - Add new SH_NOBACKSLCTRL/"nobackslashctrl" long-form option. The "no" prefix shows it to the user as "backslashctrl" which is on by default. This avoids unexpectedly changing historic behaviour. src/cmd/ksh93/edit/emacs.c: ed_emacsread(), src/cmd/ksh93/edit/vi.c: getline(): - Only set the flag for special backslash handling if SH_NOBACKSLCTRL is off. src/cmd/ksh93/sh.1, src/cmd/ksh93/data/builtins.c: - Document the new option (as "backslashctrl", on by default). Other minor tweaks: src/cmd/ksh93/edit/edit.c: - ed_setup(): Add fallback #error if no tput method is set. This should never be triggered; it's to catch future editing mistakes. - escape(): cntl('\t') is nonsense as '\t' is already a control character, so change this to just '\t'. - xcommands(): Let's enable the ^X^D command for debugging information on non-release builds. src/cmd/ksh93/features/cmds: - The tput feature tests assumed a functioning terminal in $TERM. However, for all we know we might be compiling with no tty and TERM=dumb. The tput commands won't work then. So set TERM=ansi to use a standard default.
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@ -785,6 +785,8 @@ void ed_setup(register Edit_t *ep, int fd, int reedit)
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sh_trap(".sh.subscript=$(" _pth_tput " cuu1 2>/dev/null)",0);
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#elif _tput_termcap
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sh_trap(".sh.subscript=$(" _pth_tput " up 2>/dev/null)",0);
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#else
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#error no tput method
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#endif
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if(pp=nv_getval(SH_SUBSCRNOD))
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strncpy(CURSOR_UP,pp,sizeof(CURSOR_UP)-1);
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