<snip> |In the bash shell, right Alt - " - A just returns to the | beginning of the line; in vi it's \xe4; in emacs it's nothing at all.
| | However.... interestingly enough, in pico (the pine editor) it works | great! Can someone inform this poor ignorant user as to what the | differences might be? </snip> To get this to work at the bash prompt, you have to enable 8 bits characters. Put this in ~/.inputrc : set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on Then, logout-login to make bash take it in account (IIRC, "source .inputrc" isn't enough). Strange enough, it works for me in Vim. I'll need to check that. -- Arno
