Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyboard -- DEL Key

Pete Gavin wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:50:31AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> > Knut Feiert wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:49:54 -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >Add this line to your ~/.inputrc file to make the delete key work as
> > > >expected in bash:
> > > >
> > > >"\e[3~": delete-char
> > >
> > > Why is that? Oversight or feature?
> >
> > A point on my Todo list. Pete do you know which of the console-tools
> > files is the best place to start patching?
> >
> > achim~
> >
>
> This isn't anything that needs to be patched. Its actually a
> feature. Whenever you hit the delete key, it sends the sequence
> "\e[3~" (\e==^[), which the program can translate as it wishes. (The
> same sort of thing happens with the insert key, home and end, and page
> up/down.) The .inputrc file allows you to bind whatever keys to
> whatever functions you want. The bash developers just decided not to
> automatically bind delete to any function. If you want to make this
> automatic, you could add a .inputrc file containing that line to
> /etc/skel, so that every new user automatically has it in his/her home
> directory after its been created. Or, you could add this line to
> /etc/profile:
>
> bind '"\e[3~": delete-char'
>
> If you want more information on this stuff, do info bash and do a
> search on inputrc by hitting Ctrl-s.

Hmm ok it's a readline feature. Looks like /etc/inputrc should work too.
If not adding INPUTRC="/etc/inpurc" to /etc/profile should do the job.
At least I found such a file on a Suse6.3 system. I will add it to our
baselayout package.
Can you take a look at it. It seems you are more familary with it?

BTW I made a new gcc package that builds with or without libg++. I will
commit it with all the other sys-stuff
I did in about a day.

achim~

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> Pete
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