Questions tagged [readline]
GNU Readline is a library that provides command-line editing and history searching capabilities for Bash and other interactive command-line programs. Use this tag for questions relating to the use of Readline functionality in Bash and other software.
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“i” key is not functional in bash
In bash, the key that normally outputs the i character, stays dead. It does not output anything, no space no character, multiple keystrokes of same key do neither.
This is happening on trisquel8, out ...
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How do I use bind (or .inputrc) to map two bash commands to one key?
Normally, I use vi mode in bash. It starts off in insert mode you have to hit Esc (or Altj was it?) to get into normal (command) mode.
I also bind ↑ (up-arrow) to history-search-backward.
What ...
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What does `bind '“\C-i”: menu-complete'` do?
I would like to fill out a command which expects a file argument, by alternating the files in the current directory. So I followed Gilles' reply
Bind the Tab key to the
menu-complete
command ...
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Alternative to Ctrl-R reverse search in bash
I am happy and really like the Ctrl-R backward search feature of the bash shell. Some of my colleagues don't like it, since it is sometimes confusing. I understand them. If you enter the wrong ...
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Bash not loading inputrc automatically
No matter what I try I can't get bash to load my ~/.inputrc file. The most minimal example I have tested is getting rid of my ~/.bashrc and then having a single line in my ~/.inputrc with
set ...
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Readline: using tab as menu-complete, how do I “accept” the auto-completed directory and display the next level down?
I'm using the following settings on my readline (~/.inputrc):
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set menu-complete-display-prefix on
set completion-ignore-case on
"\t": menu-complete
"\e[Z": menu-complete-...
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how to detect state of bash readline using bash script?
for example;
if [ 'readline is vi-command' ]; then
echo 'normal mode'
else
echo 'insert mode'
fi
I really don't have any idea how to do this and I can't seem to find anything on the man pages ...
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How to trigger tmux copy-mode using bash `bind` command
I'm trying to trigger tmux copy-mode using bash builtin bind command
only in readline normal mode(vi-move)
using this:
bind -m vi-move -x '"vv": "tmux copy-mode"'
its working but the problem is, it ...
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Mimic command on Linux
I find it really useful when using osx to have the Control key freed up to use emacs-like shortcuts in most applications, but in Linux it tends to be used for shortcuts instead.
Is there a way to ...
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Using multiple copy buffers in Bash
Ctrlu cuts text from current location to the beginning of line.
Now, I can paste this with Ctrly whenever I want until the next time I hit Ctrlu to copy another line in the buffer.
Now the problem I ...
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`~/.inputrc` vi editing mode with emacs shortcut keys, `Control-e: end-of-line` not working
I am using Debian 9 with the Bash shell as default. This is my ~/.inputrc file.
set editing-mode vi
set show-mode-in-prompt on
set vi-ins-mode-string "+ "
set vi-cmd-mode-string "- "
# in vi-command ...
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How to clear the screen from command line in GAP
Normally I can clear the screen with ctrl-L but while running GAP, ctr-l just displays the last command entered.
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bash COMPREPLY with custom colors
Is there a way to have a COMPREPLY return colored output?
I can get it to work when readline recognizes the output as a folder when I have bind "set colored-stats on", but I can't make my own colors.
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Ctrl-Y yanking in Node repl doesn't work
I like interactively working in a REPL, so I was a bit confused when firing up Node's node process and seeing that all the readline shortcuts I usually use worked as normal, except yanking with Ctrl-Y....
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Text from standard input not visible after program exits from a readline
I am facing an issue where the text from my stdin is not visible from on my terminal. My program does the following
Sets a SIGALRM handler which exits a program when there is no input from the user ...
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How to get PHP 7.1 to use libreadline.so.8?
After an update of my Manjaro system, my PHP server stopped working, with the error "php: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or ...
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How to make Readline in vi mode to read .vimrc?
When using Readline's vi mode in Bash, I can use command v from normal mode, to open the current command line in Vim for editing. However, in this case, Vim does not read my ~/.vimrc file, so none of ...
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Why is my readline / .inputrc configuration being ignored?
I have a configuration line in my .inputrc:
set enable-bracketed-paste on # Insert paste as a string rather than possibly running it
This is valid when typed at the command line:
bind 'set enable-...
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Input from readline owerwrites the prompt
I'm trying to create an interactive bash script, where i can call given options from 1-n or just them like commands.
It will end up with a simulated prompt and 'read' is used to get the input, ofc.
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What does “set keymap vi” actually do?
In an effort to vim-theme Readline, I see there are two
set editing-mode vi
set keymap vi
I believe I understand what editing-mode vi does providing different VIM keymaps to edit, and insert text ...
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Shell - Print values in a comma separated string
I have a txt file with some comma separated values.
cat file.txt
abc,def,ghi
abc,ghi
def,abc,ghi
def,abc
abc,def
abc,def,ghi
I want to print these values with while do read line from file separated ...
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How to bind a key in bash to a function that modifies the current command line
This is an extension to:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4200800/in-bash-how-do-i-bind-a-function-key-to-a-command.
I am looking for a way (through bash and/or readline) to bind a key to a ...
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readline keybindings in chrome/chromium
Does a chrome/chromium extension exist that can configure often used readline keybindings?
Specifically Ctrl+a for Home, Ctrl+e for End, Ctrl+d, etc for use within a text editing box.
I have found ...
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prompt (PS1) doesn't update on bound command
I don't understand why these two different ways to use the same command lead to different behaviors.
I've installed fzf and fd and have the following lines in .bashrc
function updir(){
cd ..
}
...
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Tab auto-deletion at command line
Running Ubuntu 18.04 and using bash. So I am aware of how to use tabs at the command line to auto-complete the next token with file paths and what have you.
Question: is there an easy shortcut for ...
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how to make `.inputrc` keybindings to work on commands that are using `read`?
I have this snippet in my .inputrc to map jj as enter/return.
"jj": "\C-M"
It works well but not for commands that are using read, for example entering passwords.
How can I make this to also work ...
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Generate brace expansion from list of files
This brace expression will generate a list of files:
$ touch {foo{.t,t.t},other.txt,test{,.{ascii,t{est.qt,x{t,xt}}}}}
$ ls
foo.t foot.t other.txt test test.ascii test.test.qt test.txt test.txxt
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bash in-line brace expansion
Does bash/readline have a binding or a function that a key combination can be binded to in order to expand in-line braces?
Similar to the way M-* key combination can be used for in-line globbing ...
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How can I permanently correct a typo in my last bash command?
It's not uncommon that I make a typo when entering commands in my bash interactive shell. I'd like to be able to correct the typo in my bash history so that the incorrect command does not pollute it ...
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Rlwrap vi-movement-mode does not work with some programs
With rlwrap cat or rlwrap bash I can use keybinding "jk" to exit from insert mode.
This does not work with rlwrap ghci. Why?
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What are bindable variables?
Reading Bash-4.4 Release Available, I noticed the following sentence.
There is a new bindable variable, `colored-completion-prefix', which, if
set, causes the common prefix of a set of ...
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Is there a way to define a bash readline command? [closed]
I can not find a way to do that from bash. So Is there a way to define a bash readline shortcut that will insert a dynamically generated string at the position of the cursor?
E.g., I want to insert ...
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Replace counter field in large file with iterated value
I have a huge text file with about 70k lines in it. My objective is to read this file, match a pattern ("Count"), and add or replace its value with an iterated number.
What I'm doing is :
Reading ...
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How do I clear a suggestion from history-beginning-search-backward or history-beginning-search-forward?
How do I clear a suggestion when history-beginning-search-backward is invoked?
For example:
sudo vim
#history-beginning-search-backward gets executed by a keybinding
sudo vim /etc/hosts
Once in ...
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SUSE Linux Enterprise - Python3 error with readline in /etc/inputrc
When I start a python3 shell on my machine, I get the following warnings:
$ python3
Python 3.6.4 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Jan 16 2018, 18:10:19)
[GCC 7.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "...
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I can't print the default text in the Readline input
I am writing an interface to my database and would like to be able to edit entries. I thought I'd use Readline, but can't get it work. I'd say my code should work, based on Term::ReadLine::Gnu and ...
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Readline “Miscellaneous Commands” not found
In trying to read in my inputrc file, I was reading https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Miscellaneous-Commands:
re-read-init-file (C-x C-r)
Read in the contents of the inputrc ...
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How do I copy to clipboard text I cut with Ctrl+U? [duplicate]
In an interactive shell session, how do I copy to clipboard text that was cut with Ctrl+U? Without using the mouse, obviously. Thus making it available for other GUI applications, instead of pastable ...
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reading output into variables inside the os.system command
I have a python script which runs in Linux. I need to capture a command's output and store into variables and then should print the output. Code below -
#!/usr/bin/python
import os, time
systime=os....
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On backspace, `bash read -e` also deletes same-line printf (preexistent) text
I use printf "input: "; read -e. I type something then I press Backspace. When reaching the last character, this deletes the input: part together with it. Backspace doesn't misbehave if I hadn't typed ...
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The easiest way to clear scrollback buffer of terminal + some deeper explanation?
Why bother?
Clearing scrollback buffer is handy in many ways, for example, when I wish to run some command with long output, and want to quickly scroll to start of this output. When scrollback buffer ...
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Readline keymapping C-/ not working
I have the following line in my .inputrc which does not appear to be working:
"\C-/": insert-comment
When I press C-/ I expect the current line to be prefixed with the comment character (#) and ...
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Is there a POSIX shell alternative to read -e? [duplicate]
How can I achieve the effects of read -e (which turns on line editing via readline and is available in bash) from a general (POSIX) shell? I don’t want to lose POSIX compatibility just because of this ...
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printing and not executing the result of zsh history expansion on partial search
I could do:
!systemctl:p to get systemctl reload bind result printed (as last command in the history starting with systemctl string).
but doing the same with the partial search on the command ...
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Moving by whitespace-delimited word in bash/readline
In bash line editing (or in any program that uses GNU readline), Meta-f moves to the right by one "word" and Meta-b move to the left by one "word", where a "word" is composed of letters and digits. ...
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Question on variables in /etc/inputrc
In my /etc/inputrc file I have several set statements as noted below. Do all those variables belong to Readline ? How do I see the currently set values for those variables ? For bash variables I can ...
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inter process comunication in bash read commands in multiple background functions
I'm trying to get the following code to read from a main input then read that in one function then be able to send that into the input of another function but i am having trouble getting it to work ...
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bind to string with escaped double-quotes
I'm trying to bind Alt-s to an SSH command that is quite complex and requires nested double quotes.
bind '"\es":"ssh -t me@myserver \"echo \\"hi\\"; echo \\"bye\\"\""'
But when I execute the ...
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How to prevent `rlwrap` from saving a password in an input history file?
I'm using the rlwrap utility inside the following shell alias:
alias gp='rlwrap git push'
The purpose of this gp alias is to be able to use basic line editing commands such as C-a or C-e to get to ...
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unbind default key from inputrc
What I want to do is made C-h not send backwards-delete-char
there is nothing about it in my inputrc files but is shows up in bind -p
