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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:12:42 -0400
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On 4/20/2011 12:01 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/20/2011 09:51 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Do you have CRLF line endings on your ~/.inputrc?  That would explain
> failures.  To fix it, run 'd2u ~/.inputrc'.  Other than that, it works
> for me, so I'm not sure why you're having problems.

A great suggestion.  I also thought of two other things:

- If the INPUTRC environment variable is set, you may be reading
   something different from what you think

- How and whether a terminal generates meta- keys will clearly affect
   the specific bindings you mentioned. So you may need to dig into
   the specific terminal and into stty settings for the terminal
   driver

Best -- Eliot Moss

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