jjd@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (James J Dempsey) (08/23/89)
I personally don't use arrow keys, but there are people I support who
love to use keypad keys and arrow keys. Unfortunately, I can't figure
out how to get bash to accept bindings for arbitrary keyboard
sequences.
For example, one user has terminal which generates <Esc>[A when the
up-arrow key is pressed. The user would like this key to execute the
previous-history command. The only thing I could think of to try to
get this to work was to put:
M-[-A: previous-history
or
M-[A: previous-history
in .inputrc, neither of which has the desired effect. Can you bind
arbitrary keyboard sequences to bash functions? Is there a way of
defining a "M-[" keymap?
In addition, perhaps bash should check TERMCAP for the presence of
arrow keys and automatically define them to do the canonical things if
they exist.
I also will reiterate my request for a builtin to list all keyboard
bindings.
Thanks,
--Jim Dempsey--
BBN Communications
jjd@bbn.com (ARPA Internet)
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P.S. When will 1.03 be released?