Andi Bachmann wrote: > Hello > > I'm looking for a way to set a Readline variable, but without editing > the init (~/.inputrc or /etc/inputrc) file. > > E.g., I'd like to have > > set show-all-if-ambiguous on > > The thing is that I have to login to some remote server with a login > that I share with other users and I don't want to impose my settings by > saving my options in a file. > > I tried > > bind set show-all-if-ambiguous on > > but this leads to a corrupted readline behaviour: I can't type anymore 's'. > > Reading the manual > (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Bash-Builtins) it > says explicitly (for the Builtin command 'bind'): > > "Display current Readline (see Command Line Editing) key and > function bindings, bind a key sequence to a Readline function or > macro, or set a Readline variable."
According to the man, you should pass the readline binding or variable as a single argument to bind (or at least that's what the example shown seems to imply), so: bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on' The above line seems to do the trick for me. -- D.
