Re: key bind paste from ?

[cga <cga2000@gmail.com>]

Brian Clark wrote:

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> > > > > What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a
> > > > > key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor
> > > > > position in my aterm when connected to a remote host.
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> > > > > Is there something that will do this?
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> Hi there! That doesn't seem to work for me. I realize ^M should be
> entered as Ctrl+V, Ctrl+M. What about ^[[24~?
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same as Ctrl+V, Ctrl+M .. type:

Ctrl+V, F12

iow ^[ is a single "character".. not the same thing at all as typing a 
"^" followed by a  "["

.. to verify this, type Ctrl+V, Ctrl+M at the bash prompt and then use 
backspace to erase what you just typed. You will notice that you need 
only one backspace keystroke to erase ^[

another way of typing/coding the same bind command that may (?) be less 
confusing is to use GNU emacs style escape sequences:

bind '"\e[24~":"passwd\C-M"'

this syntax is "wysiwyg".. you enter the above exactly as it appears on 
your display.

man readline has the details.