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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:00 -0400
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Subject: Re: Why doesn't ~/inputrc work
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On 4/28/2011 12:49 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Harry Putnam<reader AT newsguy DOT com>  writes:

I took a while to play around. One thing you may need to
do is set the TERM environment variable to a proper, more
capable, terminal (such as "cygwin").

Beyond that, I found that I needed to:

set convert-meta on

in my .inputrc and also to write the escape sequences as
(for example):

"\M-b": "echo meta b"

Note: *one* backslash, not two!

Best -- Eliot Moss

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