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ble.sh Bash Line Editor―a line editor written in pure Bash with syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, vim modes, etc. for Bash interactive sessions.
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Patch 0.1.15 - ble.sh Release Notes | AnnounceHQ
New April 3, 2023
Patch 0.1.15 ble-0.1.15 (2023-04-03)
Usage
Prerequisites
Bash 3.0+ and basic POSIX utilities are required.
Download ble-0.1.15.tar.xz
https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh/releases/download/v0.1.15/ble-0.1.15.tar.xz
# DOWNLOAD with wget
wget https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh/releases/download/v0.1.15/ble-0.1.15.tar.xz
# DOWNLOAD with curl
curl -LO https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh/releases/download/v0.1.15/ble-0.1.15.tar.xz
Trial & Install
# TRIAL
tar xJf ble-0.1.15.tar.xz
source ble-0.1.15/ble.sh
# INSTALL
tar xJf ble-0.1.15.tar.xz -C ~/.local/share/blesh
# Add the following line near the top of ~/.bashrc
[[ $- == *i* ]] && source ~/.local/share/blesh/ble.sh --noattach
# Add the following line at the end of ~/.bashrc
((_ble_bash)) && ble-attach
blesh-0.1 fixes
edit,highlight: backport changes in rebased commits dfac242
bump 0.1.15 3f4d866
Fixes
edit (sword): fix definition of sword (shell words)
#D1441
bind: work around broken cmd_xmap after switching the editing mode #D1478 847e602 (master: 8d354c1)
benchmark (ble-measure): fix a bug that the result is always 0 in Bash 3 and 4 (fixup 4759768 (master: bbc2a90)) #D1615 a034c91
main: work around . ble.sh --{test,update,clear-cache} in intereactive sessions #D1555 4759768 (master: bbc2a90)
main: fix reloading after ble-update (fixup 4759768 (master: bbc2a90)) (fixed by oc1024) #D1558 9372670
main: fix exit status for bash ble.sh --test (fixup 4759768 (master: bbc2a90)) #D1558 641238a
main: work around sourcing ble.sh inside subshells #D1554 4759768 (master: bbc2a90)
util: work around the Bash 3 bug of array assignments with ^A and ^? in Bash 3.2 #D1614 9648bd4 (master: b9f7611)
decode, canvas, etc.: explicitly treat CSI arguments as decimal numbers (reported by GorrillaRibs) #D1625 40a0ec9 (master: c6473b7) 2ea48d7
edit: fix a bug that command-help doesn't work #D1635 c99e2f1 (master: 0f6a083)
canvas: update prompt trace on char_width_mode change (reported by Barbarossa93) #D1642 5b22cd6 (master: 68ee111)
complete: do not generate keywords for quoted command names #D1691 cd75f39 (master: 60d244f)
progcomp: retry completions on $? == 124 also for non-default completions (reported by SuperSandro2000) #D1759 a66b547 (master: 82b9c01)
edit: fix the restore failure of PS1 and PROMPT_COMMAND on ble-detach #D1784 a0f6594 (master: b9fdaab)
history: work around possible dirty prefix * in the history output #D1808 0ed2ffb (master: 64a740d)
main. util: fix problems of readlink etc. found by test in macOS (reported by aiotter) #D1849 1dc5938 (master: fa955c1) #D1855 a22e145
global: quote return $? #D1884 c2ba90b (master: 801d14a)
bind: fix M-C-@ , C-x C-@ , and M-C-x (bash-4.2 -o emacs) #D1920 de577dc (master: a410b03)
Changes
syntax: exclude \ + LF at the word beginning from words (motivated by cmplstofB) #D1431 69156f1 (master: 67e62d6)
edit: change default behavior of C-w and M-w to operate on backward words #D1448 0a07c13 (master: 47a3301)
edit: the widgets {kill,copy,delete}-region-or now receives widgets as arguments #D1021 ec16708 (master: bbbd155)
main: show notifications against debug versions of Bash #D1612 8f989e4 (master: 8f974aa)
main: suppress non-interactive warnings from manually sourced startup files (reported by andreclerigo) #D1676 2a045d8 (master: 0525528) 88e2df5
main: suppress non-interactive warnings from manually sourced startup files (reported by andreclerigo) #D1676 0525528 4ef844e (master: 88e2df5)
util (ble/util/buffer): hide cursor in rendering #D1758 444abff (master: e332dc5)
edit (ble-detach): prepend a space to stty sane for HISTIGNORE=' *' #D1796 acb7c08 (master: 26b532e)
history: disable the history file when HISTFILE is empty #D1836 a79095a (master: 9549e83)
Compatibility
global: work around empty vi_imap cache by tmux-resurrect #D1562 b0cc0a3 (master: 560160b)
cmap: add st-specific escape sequences for cursor keys #D1633 ae298f1 (master: acfb879)
cmap: distinguish find /select from home /end for openSUSE inputrc.keys (reported by cornfeedhobo) #D1648 603cf41 (master: c4d28f4)
cmap: freeze the internal codes of find /select and kitty special keys #D1674 66263c4 (master: fdfe62a)
decode: work around the overwritten builtin set (reported by eadmaster) #D1680 43dcb66 (master: a6b4e2c)
complete: work around the variable leaks by virsh completion from libvirt (reported by telometto) #D1682 d13ce5b (master: f985b9a)
stty: do not remove keydefs for C-u , C-v , C-w , and C-? (reported by laoshaw) #D1683 6335dc2 (master: 82f74f0)
main (ble/util/readlink): work around non-standard or missing readlink (motivated by peterzky) #D1720 94137b7 (master: a41279e)
global: work around the arithmetic syntax error of 10# in Bash-5.1 #D1734 7c2463e (master: 7545ea3)
global: adjust implementations for Bash 5.2 patsub_replacement #D1738 f1599ee (master: 4590997)
main: check /dev/tty on startup (reported by andychu) #D1749 28e9c44 (master: 711c69f)
global: work around shopt -s compat42 #D1754 59075cc (master: a75bb25)
global: identify bash-4.2 bug that internal quoting of ${v/%$empty/"$rep"} remains #D1753 59075cc (master: a75bb25)
prompt: fix a bug of ble/prompt/print redundantly quoting $ #D1752 59075cc (master: a75bb25)
global: work around compat42 quoting of "${v/pat/"$rep"}" #D1751 59075cc (master: a75bb25)
util: add identification of Windows Terminal wt #D1758 444abff (master: e332dc5)
global: work around bash-3.0 bug that single quotes remains for "${v-$''}" #D1774 d0dc13e (master: 9b96578)
highlight: fix a problem that the attribute of the last character is applied till EOL #D1393 2ddb1ba #D1395 8c33557 (master: ef09932)
main: resolve empty HOSTNAME [add histdb] #D1925 e6cc6c3 (master: 44d9e10)
main: warn empty LANG [main: support an option --inputrc={diff,all,user,none}] #D1926 2bd1544 (master: 92f2006)
term (terminology): work around terminal glitches #D1946 c5c3bc9 (master: 9a1b4f9)
edit: restore PS1 while processing bind -x (reported by adoyle-h) #D2024 94db09b (master: 2eadcd5)
Optimization
prompt: fix not properly set $? in ${PS1@P} evaluation (reported by nihilismus) #D1644 a7b5c4b (master: 521aff9)
Internal changes and fixes
main: include hostname in local runtime directory #D1444 1a5e90a (master: 6494836)
global: fix status check for read timeout #D1467 b56d638 (master: e886883)
util, etc: ensure each function to work with arbitrary IFS #D1490 #D1491 7228fd0 (master: 5f9adfe)
util: fix leak variables buff, trap, {x,y}{1,2} #D1572 de71ada (master: 5967d6c)
make: add fallback Makefile for BSD make #D1805 2cb758f (master: e5d8d00)
util, decode, vi: fix leak variables #D1933 a2197a6 (master: 8d5cab8)
syntax: fix code formatting [histdb: support auto-complete source histdb-word] #D1938 492349f (master: 00cae74)
Test
util (ble/util/s2bytes): clear locale cache #D1881 a8d7fd7 (master: 2e1a7c1)
util (ble/util/s2c): work around intermediate mbstate of bash <= 5.2 #D1881 a8d7fd7 (master: 2e1a7c1)
util (ble/encoding:UTF-8/b2c): fix interpretation of leading byte #D1881 a8d7fd7 (master: 2e1a7c1)