inputrc, was: /usrmove? -> about the future

Nils Philippsen nils at redhat.com
Sat Feb 18 10:12:11 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 16:23 +0000, John5342 wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 13:54, Nils Philippsen <nils at redhat.com> wrote:
> > This disables normal non-programmable tab-completion for me.
> >
> > Also, if you want the (other) default settings, you need to
> > "$include /etc/inputrc" on the first line of ~/.inputrc. It would really
> > help if we shipped documentation for this file :-).
> 
> man readline. man bash has a bit of information from a bash perspective too.

*slowly extracts foot from mouth*

I wonder if we could make that a bit more clear if people as slow on the
uptake like me look for it -- to me it's only obvious that inputrc is
related to readline now you told me, as the inputrc file is owned by the
setup package, not readline.

Nils
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