Command ($ or #) line; smart completion?

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:50 PM -0500 11/29/05, Nat Gross wrote:
>On 11/29/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>...
>> In bash readline, Page Up and Page Down move to the beginning and end of
>> command history.  The end is blank, unless you are part way through typing
>> a command.
>That's a neat way of getting back to current input.
>
>> >About delete and backspace (mentioned in a later post) ....  Yeah,
>> >this can be a can of worms.  You *might* find something useful in
>> >the "keyboard how-to" (Google for Linux and "keyboard how-to").
>>
>> Umm, if I understand the question, Backspace and Delete work right for me.
>For me, they both do the same thing, delete the left char.
>I want del to delete the char underneath the cursor.
>(Note: this problem in gnome terminal only.)

Check the Current Profile settings in gnome-terminal; on mine, the
Compatibility tab has "Backspace key generates: ASCII DEL" and "Delete key
generates: Escape sequence".
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