On the bash page at the end of Readline Command Names The following is a list of the names of the commands and the default key sequences to which they are bound. Command names without an accom- panying key sequence are unbound by default. In the following descrip- tions, point refers to the current cursor position, and mark refers to a cursor position saved by the set-mark command. The text between the point and mark is referred to as the region.
please mention "There is no way to run any of the commands that are not bound to a keyboard sequence without binding them to a keyboard sequence." http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/52578/execute-a-readline-function-without-keybinding Yes that is right, just to run e.g., dump-variables Print all of the settable readline variables and their values to the readline output stream. If a numeric argument is supplied, the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part of an inputrc file. once, one has to bind it to a key. Why can't there be some $ run_readline_command dump-variables