Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > gnu.bash.bug > #15679 > unrolled thread

Re: No way to 'bind -x' symbolic character names

Back to article view | Back to gnu.bash.bug

This discussion starts older than the indexed window; earlier articles aren't shown. The article labeled Started by below is the oldest one visible, not the original post.

Contents

  Re: No way to 'bind -x' symbolic character names Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com> - 2019-11-30 08:57 -0600

#15679 — Re: No way to 'bind -x' symbolic character names

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 10:40 AM Nikolaos Kakouros <nkak@kth.se> wrote:

> Using bash version:
>
> GNU bash, version 5.0.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
>
>
> Trying to map Backspace to execute a function, I try to do:
>
> bind -x '"Rubout": my_func'
>
> This, as expected, binds the string 'Rubout' to the function. Omitting the
> double quotes makes bind fail. Escaping, like `\Rubout`, works neither.
>
> This is important in the case of Backspace, as there is no (to my
> knowledge) other way to bind the backspace than using Rubout. Using Konsole
> as my terminal emulator, `C-v Backspace` prints `^?` which I haven't
> managed to use with bind.
>

Backspace is a terminal setting which has precedence. You have to first
undefine it.

stty erase undef
bind -x '"\C-?":my_func'

>

[toc] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | gnu.bash.bug

csiph-web