Re: readline: How to unbind _all_ keys

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/19/19 10:43 AM, Henning wrote:
> I don't like to have dozens of key bindings I never use. Currently I
> am issuing lots of lots of bind -r/-u commands to get rid of the
> default bindings. This slows down console startup unnecessarily.
> 
> I would really like to have an inputrc command like $removeall or
> something like bind -r/-u all.
> Or is there something undocumented for this purpose?

There is not, and I don't see much point to adding one. If you want to
remove the bindings for all keys, something like this should work:

for ((f=0; f < 256; f++ ))
do
        bind -r \\$(printf "%03o" $f)
done


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