Bug 2211207 - libedit doesn't read ~/.editrc and has unexpected ctrl-W binding
Summary: libedit doesn't read ~/.editrc and has unexpected ctrl-W binding
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Status: VERIFIED
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libedit
Version: 9.2
Hardware: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
QA Contact: Ondrej Mejzlik
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Reported: 2023-05-30 17:57 UTC by Chris Adams
Modified: 2023-08-01 08:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libedit-3.1-38.20210216cvs.el9
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Fix reading of editrc (1.18 KB, patch)
2023-06-22 08:46 UTC, Miroslav Lichvar 		no flags Details | Diff
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-158605 0 None None None 2023-05-30 17:59:40 UTC

Description Chris Adams 2023-05-30 17:57:54 UTC 
The MariaDB-supplied /usr/bin/mysql is linked against libedit, and has an unexpected binding for ctrl-W (deletes to start of line rather than just the previous word). This default has been changed upstream.

However, libedit on RHEL 9 _also_ doesn't read ~/.editrc, so I'm unable to fix the binding locally. This appears to be a bug that was fixed in Fedora in BZ 1965671 and upstream in https://github.com/knz/go-libedit/issues/3#ref-commit-84b7963
Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2023-06-22 08:44:41 UTC 
Changing the default bindings at this time of RHEL9 is probably not acceptable, but the fix for reading $HOME/.editrc or $EDITRC looks good to me. The fix is in upstream libedit-20210522-3.1.
Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2023-06-22 08:46:37 UTC 
Created attachment 1972046 [details]
Fix reading of editrc
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