Delete key and bash
Chris Rouch
crouch at pobox.com
Tue Jan 18 16:51:43 UTC 2005
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:59:20 +0000
Jonathan Underwood <j.underwood at open.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With FC3 I am seeing that pressing the delete (the key under insert,
> i.e. not backspace) produces just a tilde at the command line with
> either gnome-terminal or xterm running bash, but not tcsh. My
> understanding is that the line in /etc/inputrc that reads
>
> "\e[3~": delete-char
>
> should set all programs using readline, such as bash, to use the
> delete key to delete the character under the cursor. I have verified
> that the delete key is returning the correct escape sequence using
> Ctrl-v press-delete which returns ^[[3~, as expected. Any ideaas? Is
> this a bug?
>
Do you have INPUTRC set. Mine is set to $HOME/.inputrc and I had to add
that line there to get it to work.
Chris
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