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Article #43Re: Can you unbind keys in bash ???
From: Chet Ramey
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 13:44
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 13:44
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>I am trying to get bash to unbind the key ^P, so that it can be used for its >normal function here (as a local escape to bring up this thing called the >pad prompt) but I can't seem to do it. Is this possible in bash or am I >trying to do the impossible ? A key sequence is `unbound' in readline by binding it to `self-insert', which causes the character(s) to be inserted into the input line without interpretation. Try bind 'C-p:self-insert' at a bash prompt or put "\C-p": self-insert into your ~/.inputrc. Chet -- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.'' -- Arthur Schlesinger Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!odin!chet From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Can you unbind keys in bash ??? Date: 2 Nov 1992 13:44:19 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <1d3bbjINNchh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <6408@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu