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freemant@wr.com.au (Kent Tong) wrote:

>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.

I've fixed the problem! It turns out that the problem only
occurs when I am binding the del key probably due to some 
hidden interference coming from the tty. Once I add:

   stty erase ^H

to free up the del key before the line:

   bind '"\C-?": delete-char'

in .bashrc, the problem is eliminated.


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