Re: My 'h' key is unusable
Hi Daniel,
I went home and had your hints ready to apply, but the,
'h' mystery DISAPPEARED, ...
I keep your interesting hunting advise for the case, and
thanks,
I keep
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> Stelios Parnassidis <stel@conhp.mpe-garching.mpg.de> writes:
>
> > Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted
> > to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have
> > to type Ctrl-V h to use it.
> >
> > I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic)
> > could find nothing.
> >
> > What's wrong with my very 'h'? Heh? :(
>
> Could it be a missing backslash or caret in your /etc/inputrc? A
> mis-quoted section of your bash initialization files? It sounds
> almost as if bash is set to interpret "h" as "delete-next-character"
> (something that people sometimes want the delete key to do; I can see
> how on a poorly thought-out installation, one might want Control-h to
> do this). See if "h" does indeed behave this way by typing some
> stuff, backing up, and seeing if you can delete things with "h".
>
> To track down the problem, I'd suggest doing: (at the bash prompt)
> bind -p | less
> and inside less search for "h" (less doesn't use readline, so it
> shouldn't be affected by the weird-h stuff). Then, I guess I'd look
> at /etc/inputrc, ~/.inputrc, and the various bash initialization files
> for anything that might be causing this.
>
Stelios Parnassidis | email: stel@mpe-garching.mpg.de
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