blink-matching-paren breaks closing parenthesis binding

2019-11-11 Thread Nikolaos Kakouros
In my .bashrc, I have: ``` bind -x '")": bash_function' bind 'set blink-matching-paren' ``` If I type `)` in bash, nothing happens. Blinking works. If I reverse the order of the commands, then blinking stops working and the binding works. I think I understand the reason behind this; `blink-mat

No way to 'bind -x' symbolic character names

2019-11-29 Thread Nikolaos Kakouros
Using bash version: GNU bash, version 5.0.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Trying to map Backspace to execute a function, I try to do: bind -x '"Rubout": my_func' This, as expected, binds the string 'Rubout' to the function. Omitting the double quotes makes bind fail. Escaping, like `\Rubo