From: Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: So clever it's stupid
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:57:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzbfqw9h.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> (raw)
How do I turn off the utterly obnoxious behaviour of '<' in shell mode?
(Emacs v.21.4.1)
<<<
sh-maybe-here-document is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `sh-script'.
(sh-maybe-here-document ARG)
Insert self. Without prefix, following unquoted `<' inserts here document.
The document is bounded by `sh-here-document-word'.
>>>
I give all my heredocs meaningful individual names, and certainly don't want
emacs inanely thinking that I want all the terminators called 'EOF'.
It's so completely brain-dead that if I try to type a command like
echo '<<< doing phase 2 >>>'
I don't get past the second chevron before it's shat unwanted garbage
in my file.
Similarly it doesn't seem to understand that people might want to use
both expanded and non-expanded heredocs, or sometimes want leading
tab removal, but at other times not want it. And as for herestrings,
they're right out.
Magic '<', for me, must die. How do I ensure I never ever see that
abomination again? (Unbind the key and make it self-insert in a
bunch of relevant hooks? Or is there just a variable I can set to
'off' somehow?)
Phil
--
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the
point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Preface to Androcles and the Lion
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2008-10-14 10:57 Phil Carmody [this message]
2008-10-14 13:09 ` So clever it's stupid Kevin Rodgers
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2008-10-14 13:21 ` Phil Carmody
2008-10-14 18:25 ` Xavier Maillard
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