Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <055c01c2d4c5$43b9a180$ab7886d9@webdev> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "David Christensen" References: <028b01c2d4c4$4ff06bb0$0b01a8c0 AT w2k30g> Subject: Re: The humble and other editing keys Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 07:38:41 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > Elfyn McBratney wrote on 14 Feb 2003 18:18:47 -0000 > > In bash you can add the following > > > > # DEL key in bash > > "\e[3~": delete-char > > > > to your ~/.inputrc or your /etc/inputrc file to get a functioning DEL > > ke. > > Thanks! I've been wondering about that for far too long. :-) > > > BTW I read the readline portion of "man bash" and was able to figure > out the "~/.inputrc", "\e", ":", "delete-char" parts, but how did you > figure out that the key maps to "[3~"? Searching "man bash" and > "man readline" for "[3~" and subsets didn't seem to do the trick, nor > did "apropos escape" or Google "[3~"... I've known that for ages and when i forget I refer to this little charm. As if I couldn't just look at my .inputrc ;-) And a search on google for "bash .inputrc" comes up with loads of decent'ish pages. Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/