If bash can, why not Speakup?

[Rynhardt Kruger]

I may be wrong, but I think that the vim editing style of bash isn't really the vim editor, but just a vim-like mode 
provided by readline. For instance, pressing the colon (:) while in bash vim-style command-mode, doesn't allow you to 
enter a vim command, but just beeps at you. So I think it's probably just a boolean value in the readline library itself 
which indicates to the shell whether you are in insert or command mode.

Take care,

Rynhardt

* Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> [101118 22:31]:
> I think my main point got lost in the litany of vim complaints that have
> actually been with us for a long time. I was trying to say something new
> that no one has commented on. So, let me try to redirect, if I may ...
> 
> William Hubbs writes:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:23:29AM +1000, pj at pjb.com.au wrote:
> > > Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > > My biggest complaint is that I need to be ultra-careful to
> > > > track whether I'm in insert or command mode, i.e. it would
> > > > sure help if Speakup could give me a differently pitched voice
> > > 
> > > Good point :-)  It might need some help from the vim folk...
> > 
> > Yes, something like this would take modifications to vim to make it
> > communicate to speakup some how, and I'm not sure what that would
> > involve since I haven't looked at the vim code at all.
> > 
> Actually, I don't think we need anything from vim.
> 
> 
> Note that you can have either vim or emacs editing of bash commands.
> Emacs is the default, but you can reset this by issuing:
> 
> set -o vim
> 
> By, default, this provides bash shell command editing in insert mode. As
> in vim, pressing Esc takes you into command mode where all the vim
> command mode functionality is provided.
> 
> So, the shell knows. That's got to be a value that's written somewhere,
> and thus something Speakup could read and respond to. I don't know
> where, but am I wrong?
> 
> Janina
> 
> > William
> > 
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