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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:10:54 -0700
From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] readline and inputrc
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On 2/22/06, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Anyone know why entries in ~/.inputrc (or for that matter)
> /etc/inputrc are ignored in xterms?

The .inputrc settings are part of the readline library, which is
linked to bash.  So any place you are running bash should have
readline capabilities.  Are you sure you are running bash in your
xterms?

-Richard

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