2009-10-27, 16:29(-04), Jim Lawson: [...] > I have a user we're trying to encourage to migrate from tcsh to bash, > who is used to his shell starting up in overwrite mode (as opposed to > the default Insert mode.) > > Long story short, while I can easily bind a key to the "overwrite-mode" > readline function, I can't figure out how to make bind start up that way > as I can't find an "overwrite" readline variable which I can manipulate. > And the user doesn't want to hit "Ins" every time he starts a shell. > > Anyone know how to do this? [...]
Sorry, I don't know how to do it with bash, but here's a solution for zsh (switching from tcsh to zsh might reveal easier btw): in ~/.zshrc, add: zle-line-init() zle overwrite-mode zle -N zle-line-init To get back on topic, bash is the only Bourne-like shell that I know that doesn't allow that function definition syntax above, I've always wondered why. -- Stéphane
