Calling readline functions from a bash script
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From: Mart Frauenlob on 17 Apr 2010 12:40 On 16.04.2010 10:19, Andreas Gaeb wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm writing a specific bash completion function from which I want to > directly call a readline function (namely redraw-current-line). Is it > possible to invoke those functions programmatically from a bash script, > without any key press or binding involved? > > Thanks in advance, > Andreas afaik, readline is a C library just as many other [named] C libraries, which provide C 'functions', which can't be used from inside a shell script. correct me if i'm wrong....
From: Janis Papanagnou on 17 Apr 2010 13:06
Mart Frauenlob schrieb: > On 16.04.2010 10:19, Andreas Gaeb wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> I'm writing a specific bash completion function from which I want to >> directly call a readline function (namely redraw-current-line). Is it >> possible to invoke those functions programmatically from a bash script, >> without any key press or binding involved? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Andreas > > afaik, readline is a C library just as many other [named] C libraries, > which provide C 'functions', which can't be used from inside a shell script. > > correct me if i'm wrong.... You can use C functions as builtins in Kornshell at least - which may not be possible in bash, currently. But a different question seems to have been asked here, which requires the OP to modify the bash source code anyway, IIUC. Janis |