Romain Kang posted:

>Regarding Vidiot's complaint about bold and underline properties being
>colorized, I discovered how to get the correct behavior several months
>ago.  Put this in your .Xdefaults:
>
>! RH 6.2 oddities
>XTerm*underLine: on
>XTerm*colorBDMode: off
>XTerm*colorULMode: off

Thanks, I've added them.  That takes care of that.

>Regarding .inputrc, I believe the readline(3) man page is pertinent.
>Of course, readline() and .inputrc are irrelevant to programs that
>use read() or stdio directly.

Thanks for the pointer.  Now I know where .inputrc comes from.

>UNIX old timers will remeber Dennis Ritchie's Principle of Least
>Astonishment.  Forcing newfangled features and not explaining them
>is a flagrant violation of this principle.

I don't remember that, but he is indeed correct.  Red Hat should take note
of that. :-)

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