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Re: Freeze with the letter
Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> And there's your problem. That is not the proper syntax for a .inputrc
> file (it is NOT for shell commands, but for readline commands, which have
> an entirely different syntax). Read 'man readline'. By starting a line
> with 'echo', you tried to define a macro for the key 'e', explaining why
> 'e' did nothing for you.
>
> --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
>
> Eric Blake ebb9 <at> byu.net
> volunteer cygwin readline maintainer
Thank you for the solution. Of course now I feel silly for what I did. I've
been away from *nix for over 10 years, so I guess that makes me an old-newbie.
On to the next problem.
Lou
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