[Bug-readline] Re: Using SIGINT/rl_free_line_state () in .inputrc?

[Tim Landscheidt]

Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

>> (The "\\r\n" tells psql to clear its query buffer.) Unfortu-
>> nately, this doesn't work if readline is in "quote mode",
>> e. g. the preceding line contains an opening "'" or '"'. I
>> noticed though that pressing C-c does what I want: It can-
>> cels all active thingies and gives me a clean prompt.

>>   Unfortunately, I can't use "\C-c" to invoke it as the key
>> probably gets passed as SIGINT to readline. Is there another
>> way to "call" rl_free_line_state () from a binding defini-
>> tion?

> Why not bind a key sequence to "abort" and use it in the macro?

a) I tried:

   | "\C-xa": abort
   | "\e[24~": "\C-xa\fSELECT * FROM DashboardQuery;\n"

   and

   | "\e[24~": "\C-g\fSELECT * FROM DashboardQuery;\n"

   but neither did /anything/. If I prepended the \C-g with
   other text, that got inserted, but the processing stopped
   at the \C-g.

b) Pressing C-g interactively does not what C-c does for me.
   In fact, it merely cancels C-r & Co., but does not delete
   the query buffer, cancel "quote mode", etc.

Tim