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How to create cross-platform keyboard bind commands?
I'd like to have the same keyboard shortcuts in all the terminals I use. Since they don't have the same *nix on them, and since terminals can be very different, I'm looking for a reasonably portable ...
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How to change readline's/bash's meta key?
Readline/bash use the meta key quite often but it only works when I use the Esc-key for it.
How can I configure bash/readline to accept a different key as meta?
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Change $TERMINFO in bashrc script
I'm trying to set TERMINFO="$HOME/.terminfo" within my .bashrc script. The reason being is that my terminal isn't in the system terminfo location, and so I have its terminfo file in my home directory.
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Cannot enter a forward slash character when logging in via ssh
When I ssh into one of our servers, I cannot enter a forward slash character, which makes it difficult to do pretty much anything (like ls /). How can I get the forward slash to work?
Some ...
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How to unfreeze after accidentally pressing Ctrl-S in a terminal?
It's a situation that has happened quite often to me: after I press (with a different intention) Ctrl-S in a terminal, the interaction (input or output) with it is frozen. It's probably a kind of ...
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Why is Vim eating up Ctrl when used with Ctrl+v and how to fix it?
I'm using Vim /etc/zsh/zshrc to add key bindings for zsh because it doesn't work with inputrc. In my terminal with tmux when I type Ctrl+v then Ctrl+LeftArrow the shell will show ^[OD. However, when ...
