Re: Cannot bind ctrl-u to a readline function in bash.

[Bob Proulx]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >Normally control-u is bound to tty driver kill.  Because of there is a
> >tty driver value for ^U that value always overrides any readline
> >binding.  But if ^U is remove from the tty driver setting then it
> >won't.
> 
> Note that undefining a tty editing character with stty makes it unavailable
> to all programs you run.  Programs that don't use readline to read input
> will not be able to perform the function the tty editing key is intended
> to provide.

True.  For "werase"/word-erase that probably won't matter very much.
But for any of the others and especially for some such as "erase" that
would probably not be good.  :-)

Bob