On 5/21/19 5:33 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 3:04 AM Henning <xa...@t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> On 20/05/2019 15:38, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> On 5/19/19 10:43 AM, Henning wrote:
>>>> I don't like to have dozens of key bindings I never use. Currently I
>>>> am issuing lots of lots of bind -r/-u commands to get rid of the
>>>> default bindings. This slows down console startup unnecessarily.
>>>>
>>>> I would really like to have an inputrc command like $removeall or
>>>> something like bind -r/-u all.
>>>> Or is there something undocumented for this purpose?
>>>
>>> There is not, and I don't see much point to adding one. If you want to
>>> remove the bindings for all keys, something like this should work:
>>
>> Sorry, the subject of my mail should have been "... all non-self-insert
>> kes.
>>
>>>
>>> for ((f=0; f < 256; f++ ))
>>> do
>>> bind -r \\$(printf "%03o" $f)
>>> done
>>>
>>
>> smiling ...
>>
>> The following variant does what I want:
>>
>> K=( ' ' ! '\"' \# $ % \& \' \( \) \* + , - . /
>> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : \; \< = \> \?
>> @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
>> P Q R S T U V W X Y Z \[ '\\' \] ^ _
>> \` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
>> p q r s t u v w x y z \{ \| \} \~ )
>>
>> for ((k=0; k<95; k++)); do
>> bind -r "\e${K[k]}"
>> bind -r "\e\C-${K[k]}"
>> bind -r "\C-x\C-${K[k]}"
>> bind -r "\C-x${K[k]}"
>> bind -r "\C-${K[k]}"
>> done
>>
>> for k in O{A,B,C,D,H,F} \\e [200; do
>> bind -r "\e$k"
>> done
>>
>> bind -f /0/e/inputrc
>>
>> unset k K
>>
>> But this means nearly 500 bind -r commands. And that was the reason for
>> my original mail, the question, if there is a less expensive way to get
>> what I want.
>>
>> And another problem: after removing all \C-x sequences I used bind -x
>> to bind a shell command to \C-x proper. The result, when hitting \C-x,
>> is the following error message:
>>
>> bash_execute_unix_command: cannot find keymap for command
>>
>> Using a sequence other than \C-x works as expected.
>> My guess is that \C-x can't be used alone. And that this can only be
>> changed in the source code.
>>
>> Henning
>>
>>
>>
> Why don't you unbind the keystrokes that are actually bound?
>
> while read -r b; do bind -r "$b"; done < <(bind -p | awk -F ':' '/./
> && !/self-insert|accept-line|^#/ {gsub("\"", "", $1); print $1}')
>
> On my system, that takes 0.011 seconds to run and it's not iterating
> through a bunch of key sequences that aren't there.
>
> It does seem to leave behind a few, some of which match cchars (control
> characters) in stty -a
>
> "\C-?": backward-delete-char
> "\C-v": quoted-insert
> "\C-u": unix-line-discard
> "\C-w": unix-word-rubout
These are all auto-bound to their stty equivalents, which is controlled by
the `bind-tty-special-chars' variable.
There is a problem with attempting to unbind "\C-@", since that translates
to 0. I'll fix that today.
I don't see any problem attempting to unbind "\e " (or "\M- " if you have
the right variables set to translate the meta prefix to ESC).
--
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
