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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0600, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: |
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> Key `e' and `/' when pressed just do nothing whatever. I think there |
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> way be a bell since I see a flash when ssh'd in from and Xterm in a X |
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> session on another machine. I may not have sound enabled... not sure |
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> right now. |
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> Those two appear to be the only keys effected. Upper case E works |
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> fine and the uppercase char (?) above `/' works fine. |
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> If I press Ctrl-v and then the `e' if works... ditto for `/'. |
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Sounds to me like a problem with readline. Is your /etc/inputrc or |
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~/.inputrc per chance corrupted? |
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You can try re-installing readline and/or baselayout (baselayout |
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is responsible for /etc/inputrc). |
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Hope that helps, |
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