Turn off bash completion?

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Wed Aug 27 21:52:08 UTC 2008


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James Wilkinson wrote:
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>> However, if I put the $ into the $include command, then the i key works
>> properly.

i read.

>> '$' defines a *string variable*
> 
> Not in this case, no. ~/.inputrc is not a shell script (at least in the
> conventional case of the term).

agreed as to 'conventional case', but it is a 'variable string', it can be
changed. but it is an 'env', environment, label and therefore should be
in uppercase.

> That’s what I was saying.

and i was confirming.

> Only by convention.

convention of labels of 'env'.

> In this case, man bash lists $include as lower case.

'$include' is not a part of 'env'. it is directive.


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