<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/06/2020 21:32, Chris Green wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:20200629113216.GA12259@esprimo"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I have been trying to configure my key bindings using readline/inputrc and it seems to me that bash isn't reading /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc automatically. Other programs that use readline *do* see my customised /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc, either seems to work. However bash stubbornly ignores the settings in either of these files. The default bashrc set-up sets INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc and I still have that setting but it doesn't seem to help at all. I can obviously simply add a "bind -f /etc/inputrc" to my .profile but it shouldn't really be necessary. It also appears that bash has its own, compiled in, defaults for key bindings, are these documented anywhere? </pre> </blockquote> As I recall bash has it own stuff for doing this like set -o vi for vi key bindings from man bash: INPUTRC The filename for the readline startup file, overriding the default of ~/.inputrc (see READLINE below). : : Readline Initialization Readline is customized by putting commands in an initialization file (the inputrc file). The name of this file is taken from the value of the INPUTRC variable. If that variable is unset, the default is ~/.inputrc. When a program which uses the readline library starts up, the initialization file is read, and the key bindings and variables are set. There are only a few basic constructs allowed in the readline initialization file. Blank lines are ig‐ nored. Lines beginning with a # are comments. Lines beginning with a $ indicate condi‐ tional constructs. Other lines denote key bindings and variable settings. The default key-bindings may be changed with an inputrc file. Other programs that use this library may add their own commands and bindings. For example, placing M-Control-u: universal-argument or C-Meta-u: universal-argument into the inputrc would make M-C-u execute the readline command universal-argument. The following symbolic character names are recognized: RUBOUT, DEL, ESC, LFD, NEWLINE, RET, RETURN, SPC, SPACE, and TAB. In addition to command names, readline allows keys to be bound to a string that is inserted when the key is pressed (a macro). So you could unset INPUTRC it that way by default on my Ubuntu box <div class="moz-signature">-- <pre> .~. In my life God comes first.... /V\ but Linux is pretty high after that :-D /( )\ Francis (Grizzly) Smit ^^-^^ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.smit.id.au/">http://www.smit.id.au/</a> </pre> </div> </body> </html>