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Re: [Help-bash] winbash readline keyboard assignments
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] winbash readline keyboard assignments |
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Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:20:58 -0400 |
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On 7/16/14, 3:19 PM, Mike McClain wrote:
> I'm trying to get winbash commandline editing to use the same key
> assignments I use in Debian Linux but am having little luck.
> I want to assign Shift Insert to yank and ^BS (control backspace) to
> backward-kill-word.
> Unfortunately '^V' (quoted-insert) doesn't seem to be working and
> assignments based on what Jed sees don't work either.
The easiest way to see what a particular key sequence generates is to use
`cat -v' or an equivalent. Once you have that, you can use the standard
readline keybinding syntax.
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