Re: [gentoo-user] readline and inputrc

["Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Anyone know why entries in ~/.inputrc (or for that matter)
> /etc/inputrc are ignored in xterms?
> 
> I find that inputrc entries work in console mode but not in X.
> 
> Further, testing just now with a silly test entry:
> 
> cat ~/.inputrc:
> 
>   ## C-x C-r reread init files
>   Control-o: "now what"
> 
> That even in console mode I get really bad behavior.
> 
> Ctrl-o inserts `now what' as expected but then I find that any
> attempts thereafter to do some command like ls or whatever, when I
> press <ENTER> instead of running the command `ls'  I get
> 
> `lsnow what'  and the ls command doesn't fire  any press of <ENTER>
> prints `now what'.
> 
> I'm guessing some kind of conflict with keyboard settings but mine are
> totally stock.  I've done no customizing in that area.
> 
> I'd be interested to here what others see when they use ~/.inputrc.
> 
> 
They work fine for me under KDE's konsole.

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