Willie Wong <ww...@princeton.edu> writes: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam > squawked:
>> Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think >> there way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and >> Xterm in a X session on another machine. I may not have sound >> enabled... not sure right now. [...] > Sounds to me like a problem with readline. Is your /etc/inputrc or > ~/.inputrc per chance corrupted? > > You can try re-installing readline and/or baselayout (baselayout > is responsible for /etc/inputrc). I think you're on to something... moving ~/.inputrc and /etc/inputrc to ...inputrcX Stopped the problem. Then I put /etc/inputrc back and left ~/.inputrcX renamed. That also works... examining .inputrcX, I had a multi-line entry involving back slashing quite a few double quotes in the entry... (A lengthy rsync command with a number of command line exclusions). Apparently some error there with the newlines or back slashing double quotes. I couldn't really identify the error but deleting the entry has made the problem go away... thanks... good call. I'm curious how'd you know it was readline related?
