Details
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New Feature
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Status: Open
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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OS X/Terminal, but should affect anyone running bash
Description
When I use bash, I can typically navigate using option (alt) based command sequences. For example, option-f skips forward a word. Option-b skips back. option-d deletes the next word. option-backspace deletes the previous word.
The Hive2 CLI only recognizes ctrl-based shortcuts. This makes the CLI much more difficult to use (at least for me, since it looks like a bash terminal and every other program I use in bash recognizes these alt-based commands). I find it useful to drop in there for a quick scripting session, but if I make a typo I have to go character by character from either the beginning (ctrl-a) or end (ctrl-e) of the line. Tedious.
If you could support alt-based commands I'd really appreciate it. If that's not possible, I'll have to stick with -e or -f, which is rather annoying for other reasons.
Similarly, ctrl+k kills to the end of the line, as expected. Unfortunately, ctrl+y does not yank the killed text back. Please add support for yanking killed text.
According to Venky, adding Readline support should solve this issue.