William Yardley wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:17:32AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
>> Bash picks up bindings from the stty special characters. On bash-3.1,
>> that behavior is optional: look at the `bind-tty-special-chars'
>> readline variable.
>
> set bind-tty-special-chars off in .inputr
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:13:44AM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> William Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would still like to know if there's a way to bind ^W to
> > backward-kill-word within bash, so if anyone has suggestions, I'd
> > appreciate them.
> Check out the "bind" builtin command
> I have ^W bound to "backward-kill-word" in my .inputrc. On FreeBSD, Red
> Hat Linux, FC4, and anything else with a bash version > 3, I can't seem
> to get this to work as I expect. I've tried adding other changes to
> .inputrc, and they don't seem to be read either. I tried setting
> $INPUTRC to
William Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would still like to know if there's a way to bind ^W to
> backward-kill-word within bash, so if anyone has suggestions, I'd
> appreciate them.
Check out the "bind" builtin command in the man page or "help bind".
paul
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Arrgh... Ok, so the good news is that I checked the archives; the bad
news is that I checked them after reading:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-08/msg3.html
trying ^x ^r does indeed make it work for that line.
jazz:$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 38; columns 80; line = 140
