blob: f8327beb9c2d60e5b7f4ebf4f016716e61dd2211 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
|
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
<sect1 id="ch-scripts-inputrc">
<title>Creating the /etc/inputrc file</title>
<?dbhtml filename="inputrc.html"?>
<para><filename>Inputrc</filename> deals with the mapping of the keyboard for
certain situations. This file is the start-up file used by
<application>readline</application> - the input related library used by
<application>Bash</application> and most other shells.</para>
<para>For more information see <command>info bash</command> -- <emphasis
role="strong">Node: Readline Init</emphasis> file as well as
<command>info readline</command>. There is a lot that can be done with this
one rc file.</para>
<para>Global values are set in <filename>/etc/inputrc</filename>.
Personal user values are set in <filename>~/.inputrc</filename>. The
<filename>~/.inputrc</filename> file will override the global settings
file. A later page sets up <application>Bash</application> to use
<filename>/etc/inputrc</filename> if there is no
<filename>.inputrc</filename> for a user when
<filename>/etc/profile</filename> is read (usually at login). If you
want your system to use both, or don't want <emphasis>global</emphasis>
keyboard handling, it is a good idea to place a default
<filename>.inputrc</filename> into the <filename>/etc/skel</filename>
directory for use with new users.</para>
<para>
Below is a base <filename>/etc/inputrc</filename> along with
comments to explain what the various options do. Note that comments
can <emphasis>not</emphasis> be on the same line as commands.
</para>
<para>If you will create an <filename>.inputrc</filename> in
<filename>/etc/skel</filename> using the command below, change the
command's output to <filename>/etc/skel/.inputrc</filename> and be
sure to check/set permissions afterward. Then you can just copy that
file to <filename>/etc/inputrc</filename> and the home directory
of any user already existing in the system, including root, that needs
a private version of the file. Be sure to use the <option>-p</option> parameter
of <command>cp</command> to maintain permissions and be sure to change owner and group
appropriately.
</para>
<screen><userinput>cat > /etc/inputrc << "EOF"</userinput>
# Begin /etc/inputrc
# Make sure we don't output everything on the 1 line
set horizontal-scroll-mode Off
# Enable 8bit input
set meta-flag On
set input-meta On
# Turns off 8th bit stripping
set convert-meta Off
# Keep the 8th bit for display
set output-meta On
# none, visible or audible
set bell-style none
# All of the following map the escape sequence of the
# value contained inside the 1st argument to the
# readline specific functions
"\eOd": backward-word
"\eOc": forward-word
# for linux console
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
# for xterm
"\eOH": beginning-of-line
"\eOF": end-of-line
# for Konsole
"\e[H": beginning-of-line
"\e[F": end-of-line
# End /etc/inputrc
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
</sect1>
|
