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[PATCH] bash.1: document /etc/inputrc

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This patch amends bash.1 to explain the sequence of places the
inputrc is found (INPUTRC, ~/.inputrc, /etc/inputrc) in the same
way as in readline.3 and bash.info.

The existing text had me puzzled for a bit, as it seemed to say
that /etc/inputrc wasn't part of Bash's own behavior, even though
I knew I'd seen it take effect when I didn't have a ~/.inputrc.
I spent a few minutes searching to see where in my dotfiles or in
/etc/ the convention of /etc/inputrc might have come from, before
finding it in a grep of the Bash source tree. :-)  Hopefully this
patch can prevent the same confusion for others.

Thanks, regards,
Greg


---
 doc/bash.1 | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git doc/bash.1 doc/bash.1
index 151c14cb5..7ba22b614 100644
--- doc/bash.1
+++ doc/bash.1
@@ -5492,6 +5492,8 @@ The name of this file is taken from the value of the
 .B INPUTRC
 variable.  If that variable is unset, the default is
 .IR ~/.inputrc .
+If that file  does not exist or cannot be read, the ultimate default is
+.IR /etc/inputrc .
 When a program which uses the readline library starts up, the
 initialization file is read, and the key bindings and variables
 are set.
--

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[PATCH] bash.1: document /etc/inputrc Greg Price <gnprice@gmail.com> - 2020-05-03 20:01 -0700

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