Re: My 'h' key is unusable
Hi Daniel, I went home and had your hints ready to apply, but the, 'h' mystery DISAPPEARED, ... I keep your interesting hunting advise for the case, and thanks, I keep On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Stelios Parnassidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :( Could it be a missing backslash or caret in your /etc/inputrc? A mis-quoted section of your bash initialization files? It sounds almost as if bash is set to interpret h as delete-next-character (something that people sometimes want the delete key to do; I can see how on a poorly thought-out installation, one might want Control-h to do this). See if h does indeed behave this way by typing some stuff, backing up, and seeing if you can delete things with h. To track down the problem, I'd suggest doing: (at the bash prompt) bind -p | less and inside less search for h (less doesn't use readline, so it shouldn't be affected by the weird-h stuff). Then, I guess I'd look at /etc/inputrc, ~/.inputrc, and the various bash initialization files for anything that might be causing this. Stelios Parnassidis | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: My 'h' key is unusable
Stelios Parnassidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :( Could it be a missing backslash or caret in your /etc/inputrc? A mis-quoted section of your bash initialization files? It sounds almost as if bash is set to interpret h as delete-next-character (something that people sometimes want the delete key to do; I can see how on a poorly thought-out installation, one might want Control-h to do this). See if h does indeed behave this way by typing some stuff, backing up, and seeing if you can delete things with h. To track down the problem, I'd suggest doing: (at the bash prompt) bind -p | less and inside less search for h (less doesn't use readline, so it shouldn't be affected by the weird-h stuff). Then, I guess I'd look at /etc/inputrc, ~/.inputrc, and the various bash initialization files for anything that might be causing this. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
My 'h' key is unusable
Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have to type Ctrl-V h to use it. I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic) could find nothing. What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :( -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
