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Re: zle functionality in scripts?

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: zle functionality in scripts?
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:02:34 +0000
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On Jul 20,  5:48pm, Tyler Spivey wrote:
}
} Is there a way that I can get command line editing functionality in
} scripts?

vared



OK, so maybe a one-word answer isn't quite enough.

Look up the "vared" ("var"iable "ed"itor) builtin.  Unless you have a
very old version of zsh, vared uses zle even when invoked from a script.

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- zle functionality in scripts?
  - From: Tyler Spivey

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