Re: Cannot bind ctrl-u to a readline function in bash.

2008-04-20 Thread Woody Thrower
Chet Ramey wrote: > By default, readline binds the tty editing characters (erase, kill, > [...] Use the `bind-tty-special-characters' variable to enable or disable this > behavior. > Thanks. That does indeed address my issue. I understand and appreciate using the tty editing bindings by default

Cannot bind ctrl-u to a readline function in bash.

2008-04-19 Thread Woody Thrower
It appears that bash cannot bind ctrl-u either by using the "bind" command, or by reading .inputrc at startup. This bind command does not work: $ bind '"\C-u": history-search-backward' This bind command does work: $ bind '"\C-u": "foo"' The following inputrc line does not work, even if the input