perfect, thanks!

Pier Paolo Grassi


Il giorno ven 29 apr 2022 alle ore 15:29 Peter Stephenson <
p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> ha scritto:

> > On 29 April 2022 at 14:21 Pier Paolo Grassi <pierpaolog@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > hello, I was wondering if it is possible to prepopulate $BUFFER before
> > rendering the prompt.
> > I tried doing so in preexec, but it didn't work. Is there some other
> > function I can override to do this?
>
> You need "print -z" --- it has all the usual options of print but the
> result
> ends up in the line buffer when the line editor starts.
>
> pws
>
>