The humble <DEL> and other editing keys

[Elfyn McBratney]

> 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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