On 1/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The help documentation for /etc/inputrc is found in`man 3 readline' > under section INITIALIZATION FILE and is quite extensive. However I > don't see any info regarding how to interpret the characters used in > /etc/inputrc. > > Things like: > # for linux console and RH/Debian xterm > "\e[1~": beginning-of-line > "\e[4~": end-of-line > #"\e[5~": beginning-of-history > #"\e[6~": end-of-history > "\e[5~": history-search-backward > "\e[6~": history-search-forward > "\e[3~": delete-char > "\e[2~": quoted-insert > > I happen to know what some of those are from use but how can I tell > what characters are being referred to, that is, what does: > "\e[2~" mean in plain english?
The \e is an escape. The other chars are exactly what you see. For example, Ctrl-V will cause most terminals to print the next character exactly as seen, without interpreting it. Although there the printout for the escape character is "^[". So if on a linux console you type Ctrl+v, then hit the Delete key, you should see "^[[3~" appear on the screen. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
