On 10/2/16 8:05 PM, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote:
> --------------------------------------------
>> On Sun, 9/18/16, Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] problem after upgrade to 6.3
>> To: "Nuzhna Pomoshch" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Date: Sunday, September 18, 2016, 11:22 PM
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
>> It's not all that mysterious. Your DEL key outputs the key sequence
>> "^[[3~" (ESC, [, 3, ~). That key sequence isn't bound to anything by
>> default.
>> If readline finds the string assigned to the termcap `kD' (terminfo `kdch1')
>> capability, it will bind it to delete-char, but it doesn't appear that this
>> is the
>> case on your system. It's done this since at least bash-3.1/readline-5.1.
>
> Understand only a little of that.
>
> My /etc/inputrc has:
>
> "\e[3~": delete-char
>
> Is that correct?
It should be. You can verify whether or not that has actually been read
and is active by running
bind -m vi-command -p | grep delete-char
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