From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBpuf-0000ku-Ox for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:03:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1M92SwC017731; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:02:28 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1M8vcPp001694 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:57:38 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBpoY-0002Zc-72 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:57:38 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FBpoU-0006RX-Ax for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:57:35 +0100 Received: from adsl-68-74-117-7.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.117.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:57:34 +0100 Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-117-7.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:57:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: readline and inputrc Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:57:29 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ek1vsrd2.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87wtfnst64.fsf@newsguy.com> <43FC241A.5010105@gt.rr.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-117-7.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VffLBOICHB0+0u7yxuv7Fi1yYN0= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 2a03d05d-2abc-48ba-9887-fef40e484569 X-Archives-Hash: 29cdf80b028a9b1f3dce35a955fcf66c "Anthony E. Caudel" writes: > 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 instead of running the command `ls' I get >> >> `lsnow what' and the ls command doesn't fire any press of >> 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. Interesting... yes they do here too. I greatly prefer working from xterms though. Just a matter of years of use. I suspect there is something I can set so that inputrc works in xterm to, do you have any idea what? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list