Re: no pangs of guilt that can't turn off M-x shell's ^ ! ?

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> K> If not, is this the effect you want:
> 
> K> 	    (local-set-key "!" 'keyboard-quit)
> K> 	    (local-set-key "^" 'keyboard-quit)))
> 
> no, you're barfing up the wrong tree.  The shell-mode author thought
> csh-style ! and ^ history substitutions were so great, he forgot to
> leave a way to turn them off.  Yes, not being able to type them would
> indeed fix the problem, as would snipping my keyboard cable. "rm -r
> dangerous??, just local-set-key "r"...

C-h v comint-input-autoexpand


Does setting that variable to nil in a shell-mod-hook function fix your problem?

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