begin Charles Polisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > > > does it work for anybody? > > > > > > > > Not here. > > > > > > SuSE does the right thing as-is; this is from /etc/inputrc : > > > $if mode=vi > > > set editing-mode vi > > > set keymap vi > > > $endif > > > and the environment has INPUTRC set to "/etc/inputrc", > > > but that can be overridden with ~/.inputrc (bash refman p.82) > > > > hi chuck, > > > > i'm not sure how that can possibly be; seems really impossible. just > > to make absolutely sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, can you tell me > > what you mean by "does the right thing"? > > > > there needs to be more than this, unless suse started hacking on > > readline source code... > > "Does the right thing": > >From an ordinary bash prompt, with a typical U.S. installation > of SuSE Linux 8.0, inside a standard xterm, logged in as an > ordinary user, with no further customizations of the shell, > press the up-arrow key. The shell displays the most recently > typed command from the shell history, without moving the cursor > to a different line, but positioning the cursor just beyond the > last character of the command. At this point, pressing the > Enter key causes that displayed command to execute. Additional > up-arrow key presses will go further back in the shell history, > while down-arrow replaces the displayed command with more recent > commands. > > "set keymap vi" is part of the standard Gnu bash distribution, > as documented in the Bash Reference Manual, 2.5a-th ed., 11/2001. > > Thusly speaketh the man page (excuse please the fleckths of > thspittle on the thscreen, I blame the dentithst): > > keymap (emacs) > Set the current readline keymap. The set of valid > keymap names is emacs, emacs-standard, emacs-meta, > emacs-ctlx, vi, vi-command, and vi-insert. vi is > equivalent to vi-command; emacs is equivalent to > emacs-standard. The default value is emacs; the > value of editing-mode also affects the default > keymap. > > That "(emacs)" in the first line gives the default value. > Also, under man 3 readline, the section on default key > bindings lists the complete "VI Mode bindings". Werner Fink > is credited with the inputrc file, which also has these lines: > > $if term=xterm > "\e[5;5~": history-search-backward > "\e[6;5~": history-search-forward > $endif > "\e[C": forward-char > "\e[D": backward-char > "\e[A": previous-history > "\e[B": next-history > > Maybe that's the magic you've been looking for?
rats. so it doesn't work on 2 debian testing systems. it DOES work on a debian woody system it works on a redhat 7.3 system (i just checked) it works on your suse system hrm. i'm starting to think maybe this is a bug in debian/testing readline bash. :-/ when i get back home, i'll try using the inputrc sitting on the redhat 7.3 machine that it worked on. pete -- Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech