Re: backward-kill-word behavior

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Fine, but we will have to expose the ZLE_KILL flag so we know whether to
> > overwrite or add to the existing buffer when user commands are mixed with
> > internal kills.  This problem is why (some time ago) Zefram was trying to
> > decrease dependence on internal flags.  The only other way is a different
> > way of communicating this and other pieces of state information.
> 
> Ah, right.  I always forget to take those flags into account.  Hrm.  No,
> that's probably too much to expose then.

There's nothing to stop us making the kill ring available read-only,
however.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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