The humble <DEL> and other editing keys

[Lee D. Rothstein]

Elfyn,

Thanks.

See my comments and further questions, below.

At 2003-02-14 06:18 PM +0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:

> > I want <DEL> to do what any self-respecting <DEL>
> > should do, namely delete the character at the cursor.
>
>In bash you can add the following
>
># DEL key in bash
>"\e[3~": delete-char
>
>to your ~/.inputrc or your /etc/inputrc file to get
>a functioning DEL key.

* ~/.inputrc works. /etc/inputrc doesn't. Why?
* Is there documentation for this? Specific to Cygwin? Or,
   not necessary due to complete compatibility. Does
   terminfo, play a role, here?
* How does one go about writing documentation for Cygwin?
   I'm interested.
* What are the names of the forward and backward word  keys
   in 'bash', and how do I set them to <CTRL-right-arrow> and
   <CTRL-left-arrow>. (I have the environment variable,
   'EDITOR', set to 'TextPad".)



Lee D. Rothstein -- lee@veritech.com
VeriTech -- 603-424-2900
7 Merry Meeting Drive
Merrimack, NH 03054-2934

----------






--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/