Re: Backspace problem on GDB

["José Tomás Eterovic" <roleroz at gmail dot com>]

I'm using csh, so didn't realize I had the same problem on bash (and I
do have it), $HOME/.inputrc doesn't exist, but /etc/inputrc has
# do not bell on tab-completion
#set bell-style none

set meta-flag on
set input-meta on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

# Completed names which are symbolic links to
# directories have a slash appended.
set mark-symlinked-directories on

$if mode=emacs

# for linux console and RH/Debian xterm
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word

# for rxvt
"\e[8~": end-of-line

# for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/DEbian xterm
"\eOH": beginning-of-line
"\eOF": end-of-line

# for freebsd console
"\e[H": beginning-of-line
"\e[F": end-of-line
$endif

I don't have root access to the machine, so if you could tell me what
can I put on .inputrc to fix that would be great

Best Regards

Jose Eterovic

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
> José Tomás Eterovic wrote:
>
>  > I'm using gdb 6.3.0.0-1.132.EL4rh, and when I press the backspace key
>  > (trying to delete the left character) I'm deleting the complete word
>  > to my left, anyone has an idea about what's going on here and how can
>  > I fix that?
>
>  Do you have something strange in $HOME/.inputrc or /etc/inputrc?  gdb
>  uses the readline library for interactive input and those are the config
>  files it reads at startup.  If you do have either or both of them try
>  temporarily moving/renaming them away and see if the problem goes away.
>  It is a little strange that this wouldn't happen in other apps though,
>  because e.g. bash also uses readline.
>
>  Brian
>