Re: Cannot echo capital M

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting M.K.Pai (pai@vsnl.com):

> I am facing a rather strange problem.
> 
> I am unable to echo the character "M" on my bash prompt.
> 
> I am able to get M by 
> perl -e 'print chr(77);'
> 
> I am even able to put it in an email. Note the "M" right here.
> But at the bash prompt, I just don't get any M.
> 
> Most important, other users on this system, like root and all
> others, are having no problems at all

The last person who had this sort of problem couldn't type E.
The reason was that the file ~/.inputrc contained

"\e[E":beginning-of-line
"\e[H":beginning-of-line
"\eOH":beginning-of-line
"\eOF":end-of-line
"\EOF":end-of-line <------------------ the offending line
"\e[F":end-of-line
"\e[e":end-of-line

Cheers,

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