Adapt bash readline operate-and-get-next

[Lele Gaifax]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:57:22 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote:
>> Granted, the readline library exposes a "operate-and-get-next" function,
>> by default bound to \C-o...
>
> Have you actually got that working in Python with the readline module? 
> I've tried and tried and cannot get it to work. Any hints gratefully 
> appreciated.

This is just a first attempt to adapt the Bash code to the Python
readline.c module: I'm very surprised that the half-an-hour I spent on
it, mostly to locate related code, actually full filled the goal :-)

The patch isn't complete, in particular, it does not work on Apple's
libedit, because I have no way to try it on that system. Also, I'm not
fluent with Mercurial, so this is just a "hg diff".

Even if I know this is not the right forum and I should (and I
eventually do, assuming a positive feedback) instead open a ticket and
attach the patch there, I'd like to hear opinions on whether this should
be enabled by default, and possibly get in touch with some Apple
owner...

ciao, lele.
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