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
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