Paul Jarc wrote: > Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Readline, beginning with version 5.0, reads the stty special character >>settings and binds them to their readline equivalents each time >>readline() is called. It reads ~/.inputrc once per `program'. > > > Suggestion: when reading .inputrc, update the stty settings to match > as closely as possible, so that re-reading the same stty settings for > the next command won't change anything. That way, .inputrc wins > (persistently) over the original stty settings, but later changes to > stty settings still win over .inputrc.
Readline should never change the user's persistent terminal settings without his knowledge. Users have a right to expect that changes will only be made by them calling `stty' or one of its siblings. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash