Re: Bash keeps reloading default bind key settings

[Chet Ramey]

Jimi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Strange condition that i can't find the solution to.
> 
> My bash  for RH 3.4.6, is 3.00.15(1)
> 
> 
> I have a .inputrc file with some settings like
> "\C-w": kill-region
> "\M-u": upcase-word
> 
> 
> The \C-w bind is different than the default ( which is to unix-word-
> rubout  )
> 
> I can change this by doing a
> bind -f .inputrc but it doesn't keep the value.
> 
> What I mean is that it temporarily changes the value, but then changes
> it back to default.

Beginning with bash-3.0, after a number of requests for the feature,
readline began "honoring" the terminal special characters by binding
them to their readline equivalents at startup.

In bash-3.1, this was made dependent on the value of the readline variable
`bind-tty-special-chars', which is on by default.

You might consider upgrading.  Bash-3.0 was released over four years ago.

Chet

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