Re: libedit/makelist, editrc manpage, document default key bindings

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 8,  4:43pm, reed%reedmedia.net@localhost ("Jeremy C. Reed") wrote:
-- Subject: libedit/makelist, editrc manpage, document default key bindings

| (I cc'd two developers as they contributed some of this.)
| 
| I want to close my old PR #14578 by documenting the default keybindings. 
| When I filed this PR a few years ago, I was curious on what certain keys 
| did.
| 
| I have several questions:
| 
| 1) What calls "makelist -m"?

Nothing. It is manually ran and added to editrc.
| 
| 2) Can the "makelist -m" be extended to show the default key combinations? 
| (The info is in two different source files, maps.c and emacs.c, that could 
| be parsed.)

Sure.

| 3) sh man page says it uses editline library and the editrc manpage 
| mentions built-in commands, like "bind" -- but sh says "bind: not found".
| What am I missing in the docs?

ESC-X before the bind command.
| 
| 4) Why does emacs.c document ^U for both em_universal_argument and 
| em_kill_line?

If it is preceded by a count, it becomes universal arg IIRC.

| 5) Are there keys associated for copy_prev_word, toggle_overwrite, 
| inc_search_next, and/or inc_search_prev?

I don't think so.

| 6) The following is my patch, but I'd prefer to just put this info in the 
| earlier section, but that is generated by "makelist -m" (.\" Section 
| automatically generated with makelist). Most of the following is same as 
| already listed. But adds the keys themselves.

We should fix makelist instead.

christos