On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 08:14:37PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote:
> As it turns out every line in /mc/bin/xterm_bindings that
> was not a comment was problematic.From man readline or info readline
> I saw this: bind '"\C-x\C-r": re-read-init-file' and that is the syntax
> I used in xterm_bindings, as '"\e[1;5H": backward-kill-line'.
Yeah, that's incorrect syntax. You're dealing with two separate kinds
of things: bind commands issued by a shell, and readline key bindings
read from a file.
When you put a readline key binding into a file like ~/.inputrc or
like your /mc/bin/xterm_bindings file, it looks like this:
"keys": action
But when you do the same thing with bash's bind command, you need to
wrap a *second* layer of quotes around it, like this:
bind '"keys": action'
The outer layer of quotes is removed by the shell, leaving the
readline binding (which includes literal double-quotes) as a single
argument.
You've mixed up the two syntaxes. That's the source of the problem.
> You wondered what /mc/implied, my name is McClain so /mc is where my
> stuff goes to separate it from system stuff making it easier to move
> my stuff from distribution to distribution.
That's what your home directory is for, though. It seems odd to keep
personal settings in two separate locations like this.
