You guys were rigt all along, I just couldn't see it.
Greg's suggestion to try dash showed me the error of my ways.
I moved .inputrc to no.inputrc, commented out the line in
bash.environment that pulled in xterm_bindings, killed and restarted X
and sure enough I had '"' in an lxterminal window.
I moved no.inputrc back to .inputrc, killed and restarted X and still
had '"' in an lxterminal window.
I deleted half of the entries in xterm_bindings, reenabled the
statement in bash.environment, killed and restarted X and
lost '"' in an lxterminal window.
I deleted another half of the entries in xterm_bindings,
killed and restarted X and still no '"' in an lxterminal window.
Only when xterm_bindings has no executable lines in it does it not
kill '"' in an X terminal window.
The line that pulled it in was ;
[ -n "$DISPLAY" ] && [ -f /mc/bin/xterm_bindings ] && bind -f
/mc/bin/xterm_bindings;
Greg I have no idea when this happened xterm_bindings was started in 2011
and either I didn't notice it or it wasn't a big enough problem to
deal with. I keep tty{1-10} open all the time and X only on tty11 so
seldom use a terminal window in X.
Thanks for your help fellows and Happy Holidays,
May the new year be good for you,
Mike
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Never ascribe to stupidity what can be explained as ignorance.
