From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 1:15:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E768937B403 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 01:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 30208 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jun 2002 08:15:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO corrsl7vs6l3tz) (203.197.109.2) by mail.gmx.net (mp014-rz3) with SMTP; 7 Jun 2002 08:15:19 -0000 Message-ID: <002101c20dfb$72afc730$026dc5cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> From: "Sanjay Bhattacharya" To: References: <20020606200404.A155-100000@kmart.lan.palfreman.com> Subject: DEL key problem solved Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:44:58 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have finally managed to solve the problem with the DEL key. I have created a file .inputrc in my home directory. I have added these two lines: RUBOUT: backward-delete-char DEL: delete-char I guess these two lines tell readline to use these two keys in the proper manner while running bash. And thats it. My DEL and backspace keys are working like they should. I must thank all you guys who replied for providing me with valuable pointers as to how to solve the problem. Thank you very much guys. Regards, Sanjay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message