Re: [Bug-readline] Confused about the behaviour of bind-tty-special-chars

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/12/11 4:36 PM, Richard Michael wrote:

>> For kicks, I installed bash-4.2.10 and readline-6.2 on my Mac OS X 10.6.8
>> system, and ran bash.  I didn't test extensively, but the basic emacs
>> mode movement commands worked fine (C-a, C-e, C-f, C-b, M-f, M-b, etc.).
> 
> Ok, thank you for investigating, confirmation appreciated.  How did
> you install?  I'd like to try the same method.

Pretty much standard: port fetch, port build, port install.

> Here, bash readline bindings appear to be 'vi-insert', but I am not
> doing this in
> ~/.inputrc.  I am investigating my local configuration (conf files,
> macports, etc.) ; most of which I did not produce myself.
> 
> $ bind -V | grep keymap
> keymap is set to `vi-insert'

You're probably executing a `set -o vi' somewhere in your startup files.
You can fix it temporarily by running `set -o emacs' while you search
for that command.

Chet

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