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Re: How to package inputrc
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Bengt Richter |
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Re: How to package inputrc |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 03:17:51 +0200 |
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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