Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:13:32 -0400 From: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bye, bye, bash Message-ID: <ZCJbXPVsZBkq4wR7@rain.cave> In-Reply-To: <585369190.19119.1679792115567@ichabod.co-bxl> References: <ZB9zOtaYCdUSoXcs@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <585369190.19119.1679792115567@ichabod.co-bxl>
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 01:55:15AM +0100, Sysadmin Lists wrote: >I find most people don't even know some of the features in bash exist. > >Just a few: > Commands for Manipulating the History > yank-nth-arg (M-C-y) ... That command-line editing is in the bash man page under "READLINE". The above, and the default, is Emacs style; there's also a vi style (which I haven't tried). Emacs normally treats the keyboard Alt keys as the modifier Meta, but that may not work on a terminal or terminal emulator, and of course bash always runs on a terminal. Emacs and bash have an alternative -- instead of modifying a key with Meta, precede it with the character Escape -- but that's slow to type, a real hindrance. Xterm has ways to make Alt-as-Meta work, but it gets complex. There are several settings and the "locale", which all interact, and bash and Emacs also have settings and locale. See the documentation. You could try xterm's main menu setting "Meta Sends Escape", and its corresponding resource metaSendsEscape. That might work. I don't know about other terminal emulators.
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