Joyce Cheng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am experiencing trouble with the character 'o' in bash-4.0 after a
> recompilation. It refuses to show up both when I type it, and when I
> paste in something with o's. However, I am able to get some o's with the
> completion feature of Bash.
>
> I know for a fact that the key itself is not malfunctioning, as it
> works fine in vim. I've tried recompiling it several times, even with a
> new readline, but to no avril.
You've probably rebound `o' to something besides `self-insert'. Run
`bind -p' and see what it reports for `o'.
When you want to rebind it, you'll probably be able to insert it by
preceding it with control-V, the default binding for `literal-next'.
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