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bash ignoring .inputrc (or am I dumb)


From: William Yardley
Subject: bash ignoring .inputrc (or am I dumb)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:42:01 -0800
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So I don't really like posting this to a bugs list, since I have no idea
if this is a bug, but I tried this on a couple of general UNIX related
lists, and haven't had any luck.

I have ^W bound to "backward-kill-word" in my .inputrc. On FreeBSD, Red
Hat Linux, FC4, and anything else with a bash version > 3, I can't seem
to get this to work as I expect. I've tried adding other changes to
.inputrc, and they don't seem to be read either. I tried setting
$INPUTRC to $HOME/.inputrc (even though that's the default), and that
doesn't seem to work either.
 
I've tried both:
"\C-w": backward-kill-word
and
^W: backward-kill-word
(with a literal ^W)

FreeBSD 5.4:
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
3.00.16(1)-release
$ uname -srm
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 i386

Fedora Core 5:
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
3.1.7(1)-release
$ uname -srm
Linux 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 i686

I've used this on machines running bash v 2.05 and thereabouts w/ no
problems.

w





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