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Old 02-09-2010, 08:41 AM   #1
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LXer: Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline


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Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc. Most of the time the default settings will work perfectly well, but there are a few you may wish to try out that will make slight changes to the way that tab-completion behaves. Be sure to hit Ctrl-X, Ctrl-R after editing the file to re-read it and use the changes you've made.

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Old 02-09-2010, 10:14 AM   #2
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Be sure to hit Ctrl-X, Ctrl-R after editing the file to re-read it and use the changes you've made.
omg emacs!

In any case, it's probably better to simply rtfm(readline).
 
  


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