Did `echo $INPUTRC' display anything?
THAT WAS IT! THAT WAS IT! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
This variable was set (maybe by some malevolent sysadmin) to
/etc/inputrc.
It still puzzles me why bash, despite of this, was able to see the
keybindings
I had defined in *my* ~/.inputrc; maybe readline always
In my .inputrc I have:
set print-completions-horizontally on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
I cannot reproduce it. Do you use the programmable completion
package? I rarely use it (and can't check it right now).
I don't know which completion package is installed (how can I find
1. Are you sure your inputrc is being read?
Yes, I had verified this in two ways: First I have changed some of the
character
bindings in my .inputrc, and then I have typed Ctrl-X Crtl-R on the
shell prompt.
The effect was that my character binding had changed, but the completion
behaviour
was
Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote:
1. Are you sure your inputrc is being read?
Yes, I had verified this in two ways: First I have changed some of the
character
bindings in my .inputrc, and then I have typed Ctrl-X Crtl-R on the
shell prompt.
The effect was that my character binding
