Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#58529 new defect

Port command, in interactive mode, doesn't load the editline config file — at Version 4

Reported by: SenileFelineS Owned by:
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 2.5.4
Keywords: Cc: jmroot (Joshua Root), SenileFelineS, apjanke (Andrew Janke)
Port:

Description (last modified by SenileFelineS)

See here for background: ​https://echelog.com/logs/browse/macports/1558908000

The initial issue was that the key combination Fn+Delete should forward-delete text in the command line while running port interactively in the shell - however, it instead produces a tilde character ~. The attempt to fix this in ~/.editrc was unsuccessful. (per user jmroot)

In attempting to find out why port has this behavior, it was realized that Apple's libedit doesn't actually respect the $EDITRC environment variable. As a result, it only looks at the default $HOME/.editrc, and because port mucks around with/alters $HOME, the user's ~/.editrc is not found. (per user apjanke)

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by apjanke (Andrew Janke)

Cc: apjanke added

comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by SenileFelineS

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comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by apjanke (Andrew Janke)

I think more specifically the problem is "Apple's libedit doesn't actually respect the $EDITRC environment variable, so it only looks at the default $HOME/.editrc, and port mucks around with $HOME, so the user's ~/.editrc is not found".

comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by SenileFelineS

Description: modified (diff)
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