On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:01:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote: > > when I > > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. > > May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration to type > characters with accents? I have never used this feature, so my guess may be > wrong. What happens if you type single quote twice "''"? What happens if it > is followed by a letter "'a"? > > cat /etc/default/keyboard > > What is reported by "xev" in response to the "'" key?
If it were a "dead keys" feature in the keyboard driver, I would expect that to affect his text editor as well as his shell. But he claimed that this behavior occurs only in the shell. That makes me think it's a readline key binding that has been mangled.
