Bug 9786 - user .inputrc corrupts key behavior
Summary: user .inputrc corrupts key behavior
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: readline
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-02-25 18:11 UTC by David D.W. Downey
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-03-27 12:00:01 UTC
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Description David D.W. Downey 2000-02-25 18:11:48 UTC
System doesn't utilize backspace, home or DEL for users unless you delete
.inputrc from their dir and log out. root works fine out of the box.
Delete that file and normal behavior of keys.      Root is not affected by
this by default since he/she doesn't have an inputrc file installed by
default.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-04-07 01:33:58 UTC
This is the normal documented behavior (see the readline(3) man page).  If the
user's home directory includes a .inputrc file, it must include a line such as:
$include /etc/inputrc
to cause the system-wide inputrc to be read.  For this reason, there is no
default /etc/skel/.inputrc file supplied with RHL 6.2.


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