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Re: The humble <DEL> and other editing keys
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"David Christensen" <dpchrist at holgerdanske dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 07:38:41 -0000
- Subject: Re: The humble <DEL> and other editing keys
- References: <028b01c2d4c4$4ff06bb0$0b01a8c0@w2k30g>
- Reply-to: "Elfyn McBratney" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
> Elfyn McBratney wrote on 14 Feb 2003 18:18:47 -0000
> > In bash you can add the following
> >
> > # DEL key in bash
> > "\e[3~": delete-char
> >
> > to your ~/.inputrc or your /etc/inputrc file to get a functioning DEL
> > ke.
>
> Thanks! I've been wondering about that for far too long. :-)
>
>
> BTW I read the readline portion of "man bash" and was able to figure
> out the "~/.inputrc", "\e", ":", "delete-char" parts, but how did you
> figure out that the <Del> key maps to "[3~"? Searching "man bash" and
> "man readline" for "[3~" and subsets didn't seem to do the trick, nor
> did "apropos escape" or Google "[3~"...
I've known that for ages and when i forget I refer to this little charm. As
if I couldn't just look at my .inputrc ;-)
<http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard/keyboard.html>
And a search on google for "bash .inputrc" comes up with loads of decent'ish
pages.
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk
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