Re: readline: How to unbind _all_ keys

[Henning]

On 21/05/2019 23:33, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> Why don't you unbind the keystrokes that are actually bound?
> while read -r b; do bind -r "$b"; done < <(bind -p | awk -F ':' '/./
> && !/self-insert|accept-line|^#/ {gsub("\"", "", $1); print $1}')

That was my first approach when I dealt with this some years ago.

> On my system, that takes 0.011 seconds to run and it's not iterating
> through a bunch of key sequences that aren't there.
>
> It does seem to leave behind a few, some of which match cchars (control

Here too. So I tried other methods.

> As an alternative, just put all the (un)bindings in ~/.inputrc, for example:
>
> "\C-s": ""
>
> To automate that:
>
> bind -p | awk -F ':' '/./ && !/self-insert|accept-line|^#/ {print $1 ":
> \"\""}' >> ~/.inputrc

I tried that, too. But this also left some bindings behind.

> Frankly, I'd have to dislike key bindings A LOT to go to the trouble of
> doing all this unbinding.

Yes. And I need several combinations for other purposes.

> > But I can not remove bindings with key-sequences my terminal does not
> produce like \eO[ABCDFH]

That seems to be wrong. Currently, the script works perfectly and the
time is acceptable.
What still remains is the not working assignment of ^X.

> This inquiry would have been better suited for help-bash rather than
> bug-bash.

Hmm. Yes (except for ^X)

Henning