Re: PATCH: exit after 10 EOF's

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> This is a backwards-incompatible change, and I 
> object to it.  The default behavior of ZLE on receiving an EOF character 
> is supposed to be identical to the default behavior of 4.3BSD csh upon 
> receiving an EOF character.  That is, either exit (when not ignoreeof) or 
> print a warning (when ignoreeof) if the character is received at the start 
> of an empty buffer.

Well, hence the exit after 10 characters, which was what made the
behaviour actually compatible... I still consider the behaviour before
my previous patch confusing well past the point of unusability.

I'm prepared to consider another option, such as zle_ignore_eof (meaning
that ignore_eof really did what csh used to, and zle_ignore_eof would be
my current proposal, or something such), or anything other than what was
there just before...

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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