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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: bash and the delete key
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:04:54 -0500
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> Andrew,
>
> At 18:00 2002-07-28, you wrote:
> >Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >
> >>>Oh I agree 100%.  But it'd be even nicer if, when I reflexively hit
> >>>CTRL-V, it'd do what one would expect it to do on a Windows machine,
> >>>i.e. paste from the clipboard.
> >>
> >>Nicer for you. If it's what you want, take matters into your own hands
> >>and adapt your own environment to your own preferences and leave the
> >>stock environment in the most POSIX- and / or Unix-compliant state feasible.
> >
> >But that's what he was asking for (see what follows)
> >
> >>>So I ask again, is remapping CTRL-V going to cause any problems for
> >>>those who
> >>>have no desire to enter tabs on the command line?
> >See. He asked how to remap his Ctrl-v key.
>
> Huh? The question clearly is not a "how to" question.

Right.  "Ignorant" as you profess me to be, I do know what .inputrc is for.

> He's asking to have
> Cygwin distributed with his preferred mapping in place as the default.

Ah... you can of course quote any such request?  No Rands, I was clearly simply
asking whether such a remapping would cause any unforseen problems.  And I thank
you for the difinitive answer and associated insults!

> We've already discussed the how of it: Use the ".inputrc" file to supply a
> mapping for "paste-from-clipboard" action. I and others showed how to do it
> for the "Insert" key.
>

I of course being one of those others, predating you I suspect.  Rands, just get
over me.  Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Hate me because I'm better than you. ;-)

> Randall

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.




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