Re: backwards menu-complete with shift+tab

[Chet Ramey]

gph9mail-bashbug@yahoo.de wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do
> not change]:
> Machine: i586
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2
> -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2/../readline-5.2
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash'
> -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'
> -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I.
> -I./include -I./lib   -O2 -g -m32 -march=i586
> -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -Wall -pipe -g -fPIE
> -fbranch-probabilities
> uname output: Linux delta 2.6.18.2-34-default #1 SMP
> Mon Nov 27 11:46:27 UTC 2006 i686 athlon i386
> GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i586-suse-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 9
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> This is GNU bash, version 3.2.9(1)-release
> (i586-suse-linux-gnu), using vendor supplied package
> bash_3.2-7_i586.rpm.
> 
> With the documentation at hand, I cannot figure out
> how to bind backwards menu-complete to shift+tab. 

Shift-TAB does not produce a character distinct from TAB, and the
two cannot be distinguished when using read(2).

Chet
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