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Date:	Fri, 09 Feb 2001 11:25:49 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Robert Mecklenburg <mecklen AT cimsoft DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: My bash won't accept the letter 's'?
References:	<200102091555 DOT f19Ftgx10398 AT wolf DOT cimsoft DOT com>

Robert Mecklenburg wrote:
> 
> Bash (run in a dos window) will not allow me to type the letter 's'
> this morning!  When I type the unmodified letter 's' it just beeps.
> Shift, CapsLock, Control all work normally.  I usually run bash from
> within emacs (and that does not display the problem) so I don't know
> precisely when this problem may have started.  Here is what I've tried
> so far:
> 
> 1. Searched the archives back through 1998 for "bash" "beep" revealed
>    nothing.  Nor "bash" "entry" "error".
> 
> 2. stty sane did not change the behavior
> 
> 3. bind -P did not show any binding for 's'
> 
> 4. Updated my cygwin installation the morning of the 8th.
> 
> Here is some diagnostic output:
> 
> 7 OOPS:Mecklen$ ./foo
> + stty --all
> speed 38400 baud; rows 45; columns 80; line = 0;
> intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
> eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
> lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
> -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
> -ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
> -iuclc -ixany imaxbel
> opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
> isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop echoctl echoke
> + bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.04.7(2)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> Suggestions?

Do you have a ~/.inputrc file?  It sounds as if s is mapped to nothing
or an invalid function.  If you have a ~/.inputrc file, rename it to see
if the problem persists.

Earnie.

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