readline behaves differently in R than in bash

[Marco Atzeri]

On 4/20/2015 5:38 PM, Paul wrote:
> Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> On 4/17/2015 10:28 PM, paul wrote:
>>> I "set editing-mode vi" in ~/.inputrc.  In bash, it responds as
>>> expected to (say) "dt,", which deletes characters upto the next
>>> comma.  It does not do this in R; instead, that series of
>>> keystrokes simply causes the next two keystrokes to be consumed
>>> without any effect.  I guess it would be wrong to assume that R
>>> uses the same readline implementation as bash?  Is there anything I
>>> can set to get the expected behaviour?
>>>
>>>      64-bit Cygwin DLL version 1.7.28
>>>      R version 3.0.1-1
>>
>> it works fine for me.
>>
>> $ uname -svr
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:07


>
> The problem is likely due to my old version, then, or perhaps due to
> the 64-bit width.  Unfortunately, in my work place, we are not able to
> update things at will.  I'll try to work the ropes a bit more on that
> front.


R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09) -- "Smooth Sidewalk"
Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-unknown-cygwin (64-bit)

works fine also

Regards
Marco


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