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Date:	Wed, 02 Jun 1999 20:21:00 -0400
To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, Christian Mallwitz <c DOT mallwitz AT intershop DOT de>,
	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr>
Subject:	RE: Beeping in bash. (Again)
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At 10:06 AM 6/2/99 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> > Oh, it's always an issue.  I have text mounts but my .inputrc 
>> > file contains no
>> > \r characters.  This could well indeed be the reason that it 
>> > works for some and
>> > not others.
>> 
>> If that's the reason why my .inputrc never works I f... up. 
>> 
>> My home directory is mounted text!=binary. Both my .bashrc and .inputrc
>> contain \r but my .bashrc works fine ...
>> 
>> THIS SHOULD GO INTO THE BASH (OR CYGWIN) FAQ !!!
>
>The .bashrc is read correctly with \r characters because the BASH package was
>ported correctly.  The .inputrc is read by the READLINE package which BASH
>depends on and hasn't been properly ported.  Anyone willing to submit changes
>to the READLINE maintainer?

This has been reported many times before, e.g. 
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1999-02/msg00909.html

The bug is present in versions up to readline-2.2.1 but it 
appears to be fixed in readline-4.0   So there is hope...

Pierre


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