On Friday 19 February 2010 12:42, Les Mikesell wrote:

On 2/19/2010 11:30 AM, Robert Spangler wrote:

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Hi,

I was wondering if bash or inputrc has changed form CentOS v4 to CentOS v5? Reason I ask is at the bash cli I can type, for example 'su' and then with the up and down arrows I can scroll through my history and will only see the commands that begin with 'su'. In CentOS 5 this isn't the case.

I have added some code to my inputrc file to make this work in CentOS 4 as follows:

# Search History for previous used commands "\M-[A":history-search-backward "\M-[B":history-search-forward "\M-[C":forward-char "\M-[D":backward-char

And this works well in CentOS 4 but I cannot get it to work in CentOS 5. Anyone know why or what I have to change?

I usually just hit ctl-R for the reverse-i-search function. It's a little annoying for people who don't use emacs, but it works.

Yeah, the above is a lot simpler and faster.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Robert Spangler mlists@zoominternet.net wrote:

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I was wondering if bash or inputrc has changed form CentOS v4 to CentOS v5?

I've noticed some similar but not identical oddness. My most annoying symptom is if I copy a command from somewhere and paste it into my terminal window, it executes fine, but if I then hit up arrow to repeat/edit it, I get the command previous to the pasted command, as if the pasted command never happened. I assume some of my old bash tweaks have gone stale, haven't had enough patience to track it down yet.

I haven't seen that in CentOS 5.

On the other hand, the ->bug<- that drives me crazy in X is when I'm writing something, like an email in t-bird, and the cursor shows at the left of the window, but is actually somewhere else on the line, and even locating the cursor using the mouse doesn't change this.... And yes, it's *very* repeatable.

mark

On 2/19/2010 2:30 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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I've noticed some similar but not identical oddness. My most annoying symptom is if I copy a command from somewhere and paste it into my terminal window, it executes fine, but if I then hit up arrow to repeat/edit it, I get the command previous to the pasted command, as if the pasted command never happened. I assume some of my old bash tweaks have gone stale, haven't had enough patience to track it down yet.

I haven't seen that in CentOS 5.

On the other hand, the ->bug<- that drives me crazy in X is when I'm writing something, like an email in t-bird, and the cursor shows at the left of the window, but is actually somewhere else on the line, and even locating the cursor using the mouse doesn't change this.... And yes, it's *very* repeatable.

That sounds like a bug in your video driver. I never see that, but I'm almost always running via freenx and an NX client that is usually running on windows or a Mac.

I'd think it's the video driver - I've got an older nvidia card, here at work, but I see it sometimes (I think) on my system at home, with a completely different card.

mark