Variables and keybinding in bash
Chet Ramey
chet at odin.INS.CWRU.Edu
Fri May 31 23:23:23 AEST 1991
$ Thanks to those helpful folks who recently pointed me at bash 1.05.
$ I now have the thing successfully installed under Interactive 386/ix 2.0.2.
$ (with only a moderate amount of cursing)
You should get bash-1.08 and the accompanying patch #1 from prep.ai.mit.edu.
The improvement over 1.05 is astonishing.
$ -e 's/${userid}/^[[36m${userid}^[[0m/'
$ -e 's/${todaydate}/^[[33m${todaydate}^[[0m/' "
$
Variable substitution does not occur between single quotes in all Bourne-
style shells. The variables would be expanded if you used double quotes,
but I'm not sure that wouldn't break something else.
$ 2) How is it possible to rebind the bash line-editing keys to be those my
$ (unconfigurable) console produces? ie VT100-type sequences like
$ ^[[A for up and ^[[B for down etc.
$ Things like :
$ Control-[[A: previous-history , or
$ Meta-[A: previous-history
$ in my .inputrc aren't working.
I think they will work with 1.08.
Chet
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Case Western Reserve University NeXT Mail: chet at macbeth.INS.CWRU.Edu
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