readline in A Sentence

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    Controls what happens when Readline wants to ring the terminal bell.

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    Readline uses the current(or default, if line editing was not previously active) editing settings.

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    Readline Killing Commands: How to delete text, and how to get it back!

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    Tell Readline not to quote the completed words if they are filenames(quoting filenames is the default).

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    If set to‘on', Readline will undo all changes to history lines before returning when accept-line is executed.

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    The value is specified in milliseconds, so a value of 1000 means that Readline will wait one second for additional input.

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    Display Readline variable names and values in such a way that they can be used as input or in a Readline initialization file.

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    If the number of possible completions is greater than this value, Readline will ask the user whether or not he wishes to view them;

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    If Readline is being used, and the histreedit shell option is enabled, a failed history expansion will be reloaded into the Readline editing buffer for correction.

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    If set to‘on', Readline will enable eight-bit input(it will not clear the eighth bit in the characters it reads), regardless of what the terminal claims it can support.

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    When shell-command is executed, the shell sets the Readline_LINE variable to the contents of the Readline line buffer and the Readline_POINT variable to the current location of the insertion point.

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    If this character is read when there are no characters on the line, and point is at the beginning of the line, Readline interprets it as the end of input and returns EOF.

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    The Readline library gives you a set of commands for manipulating the text as you type it in, allowing you to just fix your typo, and not forcing you to retype the majority of the line.

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    Specifies the duration Readline will wait for a character when reading an ambiguous key sequence(one that can form a complete key sequence using the input read so far, or can take additional input to complete a longer key sequence).

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