[gentoo-user] readline and inputrc

[gentoo-user] readline and inputrc

[Harry Putnam]

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.


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Re: [gentoo-user] readline and inputrc

[Anthony E. Caudel]

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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[gentoo-user] Re: readline and inputrc

[Harry Putnam]

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

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?

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Re: [gentoo-user] readline and inputrc

[Richard Fish]

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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[gentoo-user] Re: readline and inputrc

[Harry Putnam]

"Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> writes:

> 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?

Yes,  I don't really use any other shells.  And just to make sure
typing echo $SHELL returns the expected /bin/bash.

But it turns out to be something of a false alarm.  I went on about my
business and in the course of things have closed several xterms and
later opened new ones.  Just now while preparing to respond to your
reply I discover the newer xterms all work as expected.

I happened to have logged clear out of X and back in so none of the
other batch are around to check what was happening.  It entirely
possible it was all user induced somehow.

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