My history improvements

[Lars Soltau]

OK, nobody is perfect.

When I prepared my changes for distribution (reformatted everything etc.)
I omitted two bug-fixes that I already had made.

First, in readline.c, "list-possible-completions", which I changed from
format "ls" to format "ls -F", listed directories with trailing "*".
Second, in some cases, when a history line was replaced with itself, bash
dumped core.

Below are two short patches which correct these problems.
Now, I would very much like to here from you if you use the history
improvements. Please drop me a note, improvements, comments, etc., at the
address below. I am doing this as software project and need comments. Thnx.

# This is a shell archive.
# Remove everything above and including the cut line.
# Then run the rest of the file through sh.
#----cut here-----cut here-----cut here-----cut here----#
#!/bin/sh
# shar: Shell Archiver
# Run the following text with /bin/sh to create:
#       diff_history.c
#       diff_readline.c
#
# This archive created:  Wed Sep 26 10:51:24 1990
cat << \SHAR_EOF > diff_history.c
284a285,289
>       if (pos == which)
>         {
>           /* Replace a line with itself? Huh? */
>           return(NULL);
>         }
SHAR_EOF
cat << \SHAR_EOF > diff_readline.c
5539a5540,5542
>         case S_IFDIR:
>         suffix = '/';
>         break;
SHAR_EOF
# End of shell archive
exit 0


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