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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re: Variables and keybinding in bash
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$ Thanks to those helpful folks who recently pointed me at bash 1.05.
$ I now have the thing successfully installed under Interactive 386/ix 2.0.2.
$ (with only a moderate amount of cursing)

You should get bash-1.08 and the accompanying patch #1 from prep.ai.mit.edu.
The improvement over 1.05 is astonishing.


$                                  -e 's/${userid}/^[[36m${userid}^[[0m/'
$                                  -e 's/${todaydate}/^[[33m${todaydate}^[[0m/' "
$  

Variable substitution does not occur between single quotes in all Bourne-
style shells.  The variables would be expanded if you used double quotes,
but I'm not sure that wouldn't break something else.

$ 2)  How is it possible to rebind the bash line-editing keys to be those my 
$     (unconfigurable) console produces?  ie VT100-type sequences like 
$     ^[[A for up and ^[[B for down etc.
$     Things like :
$       Control-[[A:   previous-history         , or
$       Meta-[A:       previous-history
$     in my .inputrc aren't working.

I think they will work with 1.08.

Chet
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