On 01Dec2011 01:38, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Suddenly today I noticed several of the readline bindings are not | working any more. I have not made any customisations either through | ~/.inputrc or through bind statements in my ~/.bashrc. I have tried | rebooting, logging in as a freshly created user. Neither of them helped. | | To illustrate my issues, neither of the following work: | | 1. forward-word - M-f | 2. backward-word - M-b | 3. forward-search-history - C-s | 4. yank-nth-arg - M-C-y | 5. yank-last-arg - M-. | 6. transpose-words - M-t | 7. upcase-word - M-u | 8. backward-kill-word - M-<DEL> | 9. kill-word - M-d | | While compiling the above list I realised its all the keybindings with | the Alt (meta) key. Any ideas what went wrong? Might your terminal emulator settings have changed? Possibilities: Alt and Meta are actually distinct keys in the X11 keyboard model; this association may have been changed. Terminal emulators choose to associate Alt and Meta too. Maybe your terminal emulator config has changed. Ctrl-S is "XOFF" - cease output - when flow control is on on a terminal/serial device (and terminals _are_ serial devices:-). Readline probably turns this off, but may not. If Ctrl-S doesn't prevent other typing, you can probably ignore this idea. Check your newly created user - be sure there is no default .inputrc. And isn't there a system wide inputrc, maybe in /etc? Check that you're using "emacs" command line editing; bash may only offer that, but zsh at least has a "vi" mode command line editing as well, which would break the mappings you expect. Do other readline capable programs also fail? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Dangerous stuff, science. Lots of us not fit for it. - H.C. Bailey, _The Long Dinner_ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
