On +2020-07-13 00:01:32 +0200, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > Hi folks, > > an annoying thing for me in a default Guix installation is the lack of > an inputrc definition[0]. So while using the shell I miss going through > my bash history via "page up"/"page down" keys. > > To tackle this issue I created a simple inputrc and copied to > `/etc/inputrc`: > ```
What hat are you wearing? Admin or user as logged in, or user as user of a particular app, or? Of course, as owner of your machine, you may do as you please, if you can ;-) But IMO user preferences should stay out of the root directory, like /etc/... so I would put your mods in $HOME/.inputrc, as your ArchLinux referece [0] discusses, or maybe under ~/.emacs.d/ if it's just emacs you want to tweak. As you say, other distros provide defaults, but unless you want to modify everyone's experience who logs in on the machine, I would say stick to $HOME/.something, where something IMO should not be more global in effect than need be. Think twice about anything you need sudo to accomplish :) I think it is a kind of namespace hygiene problem, when it is not clear who gets to define names and what they do under what circumstances. My 2ยข ;-) > # alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history > "\e[5~": history-search-backward > "\e[6~": history-search-forward > ``` > > In order to achieve this more elegant I could write a simple service to > copy the file to /etc. Another option would be a small package. > > I think other distros provide one in the default, basic installation: > ArchLinux[1], Debian[2] and openSUSE has even a longer one. > > Are others missing that too? What do you think? > > Good night > Jonathan > > [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Readline > [1] > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/inputrc?h=packages/readline > [2] https://packages.debian.org/buster/all/readline-common/filelist > -- Regards, Bengt Richter