From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pturing Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Xterm and Readline (was: select large text with mouse) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <05f825db-d5be-4573-b7c2-4a968928df2c@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <32f22e4c-2240-45f2-bace-681ca518ecdd@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <70de5810-2e8b-4671-b6c0-cca819d0868a@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <3c7cb96b-cf76-464f-b2ef-e7bd62652211@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213536808 25208 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2008 13:33:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:33:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 15 15:34:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K7sMw-0008JM-Kn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:34:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7sM8-0001r9-Fo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:33:16 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.201.161.214 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213468195 10424 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2008 18:29:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=98.201.161.214; posting-account=my-MRhAAAABXEGQibPYv3CdaaLpSfRjA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008060309 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159487 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:31:05 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54852 Archived-At: > i put the line "source ~/.profile" in my .bashrc; > when i loaded xterm i got a blank screen with no login prompt; > > here's the .profile file; notice that it also includes the "export..." > lines for > .inputrc: > > ~/.profile: > --------------snip---------------- > # the default umask is set in /etc/profile > #umask 022 > > # if running bash > if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then > =A0 =A0 # include .bashrc if it exists > =A0 =A0 if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 . ~/.bashrc > =A0 =A0 fi > fi > Your .profile already has a line that loads .bashrc. A period at the beginning of a line is the same as source. So you have your .profile calling .bashrc and your .bashrc calling .profile, which means its in an infinite loop, so that's why you got a blank screen.