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RE: Beeping in bash. (Again)
- To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com, Christian Mallwitz <c.mallwitz@intershop.de>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: RE: Beeping in bash. (Again)
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 20:21:00 -0400
At 10:06 AM 6/2/99 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> > Oh, it's always an issue. I have text mounts but my .inputrc
>> > file contains no
>> > \r characters. This could well indeed be the reason that it
>> > works for some and
>> > not others.
>>
>> If that's the reason why my .inputrc never works I f... up.
>>
>> My home directory is mounted text!=binary. Both my .bashrc and .inputrc
>> contain \r but my .bashrc works fine ...
>>
>> THIS SHOULD GO INTO THE BASH (OR CYGWIN) FAQ !!!
>
>The .bashrc is read correctly with \r characters because the BASH package was
>ported correctly. The .inputrc is read by the READLINE package which BASH
>depends on and hasn't been properly ported. Anyone willing to submit changes
>to the READLINE maintainer?
This has been reported many times before, e.g.
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1999-02/msg00909.html
The bug is present in versions up to readline-2.2.1 but it
appears to be fixed in readline-4.0 So there is hope...
Pierre
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