[SOLVED] Gnome-terminal and history-search-backward

thiagoc · 2011-01-28 11:33:58

"\e[A":history-search-backward
"\e[B":history-search-forward

It works fine, but now when I write a command or anything else in terminal and want to go some words backward with <CONTROL> + <LEFT ARROW> I can't:

colossus [09:29:48] [~]: echo hello world;5D

Anyone know a workaround for this?

Last edited by thiagoc (2011-03-11 16:53:52)

thiagoc · 2011-03-11 16:53:01

Just found the solution:

$include /etc/inputrc
"\e[A":history-search-backward
"\e[B":history-search-forward

Markus00000 · 2011-03-28 14:21:32

thiagoc, did you have to change permissions for /etc/inputrc? I cannot include it:

bash: /etc/inputrc: Permission denied

mrman · 2011-09-05 06:37:35

Markus00000 wrote:

thiagoc, did you have to change permissions for /etc/inputrc? I cannot include it:
bash: /etc/inputrc: Permission denied

Make sure you are editing ~/.inputrc and not ~/.bashrc.

I received this error when doing the latter.

Markus00000 · 2011-09-05 09:02:07

Thanks for the late help!

I haven't thought of this issue since then. Obviously, I am no longer doing anything that needs /etc/inputrc included.

Anyways, I think I tried to execute "source .inputrc" back then to apply the changes which couldn't work.

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