RE: Beeping in bash. (Again)

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@eurecom.fr>]

At 10:06 AM 6/2/99 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> > Oh, it's always an issue.  I have text mounts but my .inputrc 
>> > file contains no
>> > \r characters.  This could well indeed be the reason that it 
>> > works for some and
>> > not others.
>> 
>> If that's the reason why my .inputrc never works I f... up. 
>> 
>> My home directory is mounted text!=binary. Both my .bashrc and .inputrc
>> contain \r but my .bashrc works fine ...
>> 
>> THIS SHOULD GO INTO THE BASH (OR CYGWIN) FAQ !!!
>
>The .bashrc is read correctly with \r characters because the BASH package was
>ported correctly.  The .inputrc is read by the READLINE package which BASH
>depends on and hasn't been properly ported.  Anyone willing to submit changes
>to the READLINE maintainer?

This has been reported many times before, e.g. 
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1999-02/msg00909.html

The bug is present in versions up to readline-2.2.1 but it 
appears to be fixed in readline-4.0   So there is hope...

Pierre


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