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Re: Get Terminal to Echo line in buffer on backspace



On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 05:44:33AM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote:
> Thanks for the insightful replies.
> 
> I think I am getting closer to a solution.
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to bind the "redraw-current-line" to the delete
> (ASCII DEL), i.e. Alt 127??
> 
> And, just add that to my user's bash file?

It would go in ~/.inputrc by preference.  But you *could* wrap it in "bind"
and put it in ~/.bashrc instead, if for some reason you wanted it to be
more complicated, or to be done only in bash and not in other programs
which use readline.

> I am thinking out loud, not sure this would work.

Me either.  Try It And See.


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