From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: imputerate Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Xterm and Readline (was: select large text with mouse) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <39241333-9551-477a-9a08-46a772611205@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> 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 1213519294 9134 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2008 08:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:41:34 +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 10:42:18 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 1K7noX-0008I7-FZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:42:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7nnj-0005d0-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:41:27 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 55 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.31.205.57 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213516174 21012 127.0.0.1 (15 Jun 2008 07:49:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.31.205.57; posting-account=nLw1LAgAAAC-__9kTF1Cg2C1w3aPdEcE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159491 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:54845 Archived-At: On Jun 14, 1:24=A0pm, pturing wrote: > > export INPUTRC=3D/etc/inputrc > > export INPUTRC=3D/home/hodgson/.inputrc > > -------------------------------------- > > A couple things to note here: > > * Each of these export INPUTRC=3Dfoo lines is setting the INPUTRC > variable, so the second one overwrites the value set by the first one. > * You should not need either of these lines, since programs using > readline will know to read in from the .inputrc file in your home > directory by default > * I think if you do have an .inputrc in your home directory, any > entries in /etc/inputrc will not get read from pturing's next post: 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. imputerate replies: i can't find a line in .bashrc which calls .profile, but anyway... taking in all four of pturing's points together: i got rid of .profile, and /etc/inputrc; then i commented out both 'export INPUTRC' lines in .bashrc; when loaded Xterm/bash: the Readline customizations weren't active; realizing that the line 'export INPUTRC=3D/etc/inputrc' WAS active in the =2Ebashrc on the slackware box [where Readline IS active], i restored that line to my .bashrc on the ubuntu box: the customized keystrokes delivered characters with diacritical marks, like e with ` or ' on top [these are part of the font i 've set in .Xresources: "Emacs*font: -*-lucida-medium-*-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* " [a problem, anyway, because the spacing is proportional] so, i commented out that line, and uncommented the export INPUTRC=3D/ home/hodgson/.inputrc line: this time there were no weird characters, also no Readline stuff; so, i restored the file, /etc/inputrc: same thing as before; so, i restored the file ~/.profile [with no 'export INPUTRC' lines]: same; it looks like i have to tell somebody, somewhere to source some form of Readline configuration; i'll keep trying; any ideas? imputerate