"Anthony E. Caudel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Anyone know why entries in ~/.inputrc (or for that matter) >> /etc/inputrc are ignored in xterms? >> >> I find that inputrc entries work in console mode but not in X. >> >> Further, testing just now with a silly test entry: >> >> cat ~/.inputrc: >> >> ## C-x C-r reread init files >> Control-o: "now what" >> >> That even in console mode I get really bad behavior. >> >> Ctrl-o inserts `now what' as expected but then I find that any >> attempts thereafter to do some command like ls or whatever, when I >> press <ENTER> instead of running the command `ls' I get >> >> `lsnow what' and the ls command doesn't fire any press of <ENTER> >> prints `now what'. >> >> I'm guessing some kind of conflict with keyboard settings but mine are >> totally stock. I've done no customizing in that area. >> >> I'd be interested to here what others see when they use ~/.inputrc. >> >> > They work fine for me under KDE's konsole.
Interesting... yes they do here too. I greatly prefer working from xterms though. Just a matter of years of use. I suspect there is something I can set so that inputrc works in xterm to, do you have any idea what? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
