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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: tcsh bindkey in .cshrc -- how?
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Date: 14 Jan 91 00:04:53 GMT
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In article <GPLAN.91Jan13011925@sol.aer.com> gplan@sol.aer.com (George Planansky) writes:
>On our sun 3's (4.03) tcsh (Cornell) 11/10/90 options 8b,el,dl,al,
>the 4 sun keyboard arrow keys are all bound to up-history notwithstanding
>them man pages description of these bindings.
>
>Using bindkey, I can rebind these keys just find from the command line.
>If I put the bindkey commands in .cshrc, however, they don't work at 
>all -- unless I source .cshrc from the command line.
>
>Why doesn't bindkey work in .cshrc?
>How do I do what I want?

You sure that you don't have a .tcshrc in your home directory? If it
exists, tcsh will source it instead of a .cshrc.


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