Re: shell-expand-line working strangely without shebangs

[Jae Juang]

Thank you! Indeed a build from branch bash-5.3-testing shows the issue to be 
fixed (devel did not build for me). I look forward to the release of the fix.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2024, at 1:41 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 8/5/24 4:57 AM, Jae Juang wrote:
> 
> > Bash Version: 5.2
> > Patch Level: 15
> > Release Status: release
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Description:
> > In bash, the very useful shell-expand-line (`M-C-e`) expands command 
> > substitutions to their contents, on the current line. However, this works 
> > very strangely for commands without shebangs. Symptoms further described in 
> > "Repeat-By" section.
> 
> Hi. Thanks for the report. This is the same issue as reported in
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2024-01/msg00095.html
> 
> The fix is described in
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2024-01/msg00101.html
> 
> and has been in the devel git branch since late January.
> 
> Chet
> 
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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