On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 09:06:47PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:01:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote: > > > when I > > > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows. > > > > May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration to type > > characters with accents? I have never used this feature, so my guess may be > > wrong. What happens if you type single quote twice "''"? What happens if it > > is followed by a letter "'a"? > > > > cat /etc/default/keyboard > > > > What is reported by "xev" in response to the "'" key? > > If it were a "dead keys" feature in the keyboard driver, I would expect > that to affect his text editor as well as his shell. But he claimed > that this behavior occurs only in the shell. That makes me think it's > a readline key binding that has been mangled.
My thought also. But ruling that out is easy, so... Mike: what happens if you type the single quote twice in your terminal? What happens if you type single quote, then space? Cheers -- t
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