Bug 114060 – .inputrc keybindings behave unexpectedly

Bug 114060 - .inputrc keybindings behave unexpectedly

Summary:	.inputrc keybindings behave unexpectedly

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	bash (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2004-01-21 19:47 EST by Reuben Thomas
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-12-10 08:17:36 EST
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Description Reuben Thomas 2004-01-21 19:47:43 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U) Opera 7.23  [en]

Description of problem:
In the man page for bash, it says that the Meta-key combinations can 
be bound in two ways: either

Meta-<key>: function

or

"\M-<key>": function

In my experience, the first works, but the second doesn't. For 
example, try putting the following in .inputrc:

Meta-p: history-search-backward

then run bash, and type

bind -q history-search-backward

For me it says:

history-search-backward can be invoked via "?".

If I try the other form:

"\M-p": history-search-backward

I get:

history-search-backward can be invoked via "\M-p".



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.05b-34

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above.
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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-01-22 05:58:56 EST

I'm not sure if I understand which one is working -- for me it's the
other way round to the way you describe it.

Does it help to put 'set convert-meta On' immediately before that line?

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2004-12-10 07:21:55 EST

No feedback; closing.

Comment 3 Reuben Thomas 2004-12-10 07:33:23 EST

Sorry, not sure why I never replied to your question.

As I said originally, bindings of the form:

Meta-p: function

don't work, whereas

"\M-p": function

does work. Adding "set convert-meta On" before a binding of the form "Meta-p" 
does indeed help.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2004-12-10 08:17:36 EST

Reported upstream.

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