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wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (William Edward Webber) wrote:

>Kent Tong (freemant@wr.com.au) opined:
>: 
>: I'm trying to use the built-in command bind to bind ^? (ie, del)
>: to the readline function delete-char. It works if I enter the
>: command directly. It doesn't work if I put it into .bashrc. I
>: can use "bind -q delete-char" in .bashrc to verify that it does
>: bind the key successfully in .bashrc but somehow the effect is
>: gone when .bashrc has been processed. Any idea why?
>: 
>Are we talking XWindow or a VC here? 

A bash running in an xterm in X Window.

>On my VCs, at least, the
>'delete' key produces a literal of '^[[3~'. Also note that the
>bindings you do for the shell mightn't work for programs the shell
>calls.

I just use the del key to edit the command line. As said in
the previous post, it works if the bind command is entered
directly but it doesn't if the command is put into .bashrc.
More exactly, it works when .bashrc is being processed but
the effect is gone afterwards.


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