Re: help me with readline key binding problem

[Andreas Schwab]

Oibane <pflm52td@w6.dion.ne.jp> writes:

> It's surely bound according to bind -p, ok, but pressing Ctrl-' results 
> in ', a plain single quote, in xterm, and nothing in linux console. 
> (My keyboard does not need shift for apostrophe.) What should I do?

You need to change the characters those keys are generating, there is
nothing you can do inside readline about that.

> The other two are more peculiar. Putting
> "\C-.":beginning-of-line
> "\C-,":beginning-of-line
> and beginning-of-line gets bound instead to Ctrl-n, Ctrl-l, respectively.

There are no control characters with these names.  The C- modifier just
clears the 0x40 bit of the character, thus C-. and C-n map to the same
control character.

> Was it wrong, because not escaped? But when I write
> "\C-\.":beginning-of-line
> "\C-\,":beginning-of-line
> bind -p returns the carbon copy of these two lines, 

You have just bound the two character sequences C-\ . and C-\ , to
beginning-of-line.

> but holding down Ctrl-. or , returns nothing.

As long as the terminal does not emit anything distinguishable for these
keys it won't change anything.

Andreas.

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