> Elfyn McBratney wrote on 14 Feb 2003 18:18:47 -0000 > > In bash you can add the following > > > > # DEL key in bash > > "\e[3~": delete-char > > > > to your ~/.inputrc or your /etc/inputrc file to get a functioning DEL > > ke. > > Thanks! I've been wondering about that for far too long. :-) > > > BTW I read the readline portion of "man bash" and was able to figure > out the "~/.inputrc", "\e", ":", "delete-char" parts, but how did you > figure out that the <Del> key maps to "[3~"? Searching "man bash" and > "man readline" for "[3~" and subsets didn't seem to do the trick, nor > did "apropos escape" or Google "[3~"...
I've known that for ages and when i forget I refer to this little charm. As if I couldn't just look at my .inputrc ;-) <http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html> And a search on google for "bash .inputrc" comes up with loads of decent'ish pages. Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
