Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-28 Thread Rodrigo Castro
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:00:58PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > Is "\EOF" really what your file says here? maybe \E isn't treated as > escape, so bash is looking for a literal "E" to be followed by "OF", and > then it will go to the end of the line. (Try that, typing "EOF", and see if > the curs

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-27 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 2000-03-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : > read(0, "g", 1) = 1 > ^^^ > > It waits for another key. I typed g here > > write(2, "\7", 1) = 1 > ^ Hum. It looks like someone here is behaving as though the Control key was

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-27 Thread Rodrigo Castro
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:37:27PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > Is it really just bash that has this problem? You tested other shells, but > I don't think they use GNU readline. What about other things that > use readline, like octave (find something smaller if you don't have it > installed alre

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-27 Thread Peter Cordes
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:55:21 -0300 > From: Rodrigo Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, > debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bash and Letter E > > Hello, > [...] > > INPUTRC

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-27 Thread Peter Cordes
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 11:46:23 -0300 > From: Rodrigo Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Bash and Letter E > > Hello > > Sorry for asking again about my problem but I can't make my

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 01:11:17AM +0200, Antonio Fiol Bonnín wrote: > I have no idea, but what does it do when you press your E key while in the > middle of a command (while editing). > I am afraid it has the same symptoms. :-( PS: Please carbon copy messages to me. []'s -- Rodrigo Ca

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > | - I booted with init option (linux init=/bin/bash) in order to run no > | init script and it didn't work either. I also tried D option (linux > | D). > > Assuming that your mail is serious requires a fair amount of work, b

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread rodsc
Hello, On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:13:25AM -0800, David Benson wrote: > I only have one debugging idea, but your problem sounds > like no fun, so I hope this helps... > > Try running ``strace bash'' to see whether the key-event > is making it to bash. > > If so, try other libreadline-based progra

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Samuel Tardieu
| - I booted with init option (linux init=/bin/bash) in order to run no | init script and it didn't work either. I also tried D option (linux | D). Assuming that your mail is serious requires a fair amount of work, but I'll try anyway. bash man page reports that /etc/profile is read first. What d

Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello Sorry for asking again about my problem but I can't make my letter E work in bash (neither in console nor xterm). See what happens: - "E" is treated like a dead key. It is not showed at first time, but when you press another key after "E", it beeps - "E" works in other programs and