[plug] bash the curious

[James Devenish]

In message <1099472720.973.83.camel at vaio>
on Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:05:20PM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> Lastly, by what name would one find this feature in the bash man page?

Apparently:

"READLINE
    This is the library that handles reading input when using an
    interactive shell...

Readline Notation
    Readline commands may be given numeric arguments, which normally act
    as a repeat count...

Numeric Arguments
    digit-argument (M-0, M-1, ..., M--)
        Add this digit to the argument already accumulating, or
        start a new argument.  M-- starts a negative argument."