Thanks Steven; On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 16:27 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/07/09 09:30, quoth William Case: > > Hi; > > > > I solved all my readline problems in .bashrc with > > export INPUTRC='/etc/inputrc'. Before I feel too sheepish ... > > Let me stimulate your need for feeling sheepish. > My wife passed away a few years ago. My ego needs someone, from time to time, to stimulate my sheepishness. > * Never set an environment variable in your .bashrc Instead, set it in your > .bash_profile. > Ah well. That's what happens when you find the solution at night and then post about it the next morning. The export statement was placed in the .bash_profile from the beginning. I just wrote too fast and mis-remembered this morning. > * If you say export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc in your .bash_profile then you will > bypass any additions that you might want to add for yourself personally. This is a one person system. I deliberately wanted to make the changes universal to the system. > By > default, the ~/.inputrc is read already, so better would be to say in your > ~/.inputrc: > > $include /etc/inputrc > and then add any extras you personally may have. > I didn't know about the $include directive. I looked it up in the readline manual, and now I know what it is for, I will use it. > * Note that the export statement in your .bashrc should not have the pathname > in single quotes. It doesn't hurt but it doesn't do you any good either since > it's inherently a single word. Try to reserve the single quotes to create a > value that may have multiple words and the double quotes for when you have > variable interpolation. OK. Someone, somewhere, sometime ago said I should always use the single quotes "just to be safe". I got into the habit of doing just that. Thanks -- Regards Bill Fedora 11, Gnome 2.26.3 Evo.2.26.3, Emacs 22.3.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
