Timeline for Readline keymapping C-/ not working
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 15:28 | comment | added | Johan Myréen |
For some reason I can't get the syntax "\M-/" to work in .inputrc either, but "\e/": "your action here" works. In my terminal emulator combining the Alt key with almost any key prepends an Esc to the key character. You can check by pressing Ctrl-v before the Alt-key combination, this prints the output like this: ^[/ (Alt-/ used as an example).
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 9:11 | comment | added | DanielGibbs |
Are there limitations on which characters can be "metafied"? M-/ doesn't seem to work for me either.
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 8:30 | vote | accept | DanielGibbs | ||
| Nov 3, 2017 at 8:10 | comment | added | Johan Myréen |
Meta-# is by convention an escape control character followed by # (or whatever character you want to "metafy"). The Readline library can also be configured to interpret the eight bit, if set, as a meta flag if the terminal (emulator) supports this. But this is very esoteric, since it restricts the input character set to seven bits.
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 7:49 | comment | added | DanielGibbs |
So what does this mean for Meta sequences like M-#? Or are they not subject to the same restrictions?
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| Nov 3, 2017 at 7:46 | history | answered | Johan Myréen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |