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Re: Freeze with the letter


Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:


> And there's your problem.  That is not the proper syntax for a .inputrc
> file (it is NOT for shell commands, but for readline commands, which have
> an entirely different syntax).  Read 'man readline'.  By starting a line
> with 'echo', you tried to define a macro for the key 'e', explaining why
> 'e' did nothing for you.
> 
> --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
> 
> Eric Blake             ebb9 <at> byu.net
> volunteer cygwin readline maintainer

Thank you for the solution. Of course now I feel silly for what I did. I've 
been away from *nix for over 10 years, so I guess that makes me an old-newbie. 
On to the next problem.
Lou



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