Hi Daniel, > One thing I really like about ..... wait for it, MS-Dos is that I press the > escape key and it clears the command line. > Can anyone point me in the right direction about how I could set this up in > bash.
In bash (both vi and emacs editing styles) control-u does this for you. If you can train yourself to use control-u to kill your line, you should be happy. Incidentally, you can get back what you've killed with control-u by doing a control-y (yank); this is a cut-and-paste feature in bash. Even more crazily, you can get back the last few things you've cut with control-u by hitting escape-y repeatedly (emacs mode only). I mention this just to show the power of bash/readline; I don't use this one myself. Escape is used so much in both vi/emacs modes that you probably don't want to make the escape key your line-kill character. The function run by control-u is called "unix-line-discard" and you can make keys besides control-u through the ~/.inputrc file. See the bash man page for details; search for "inputrc". Good luck, Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
