i'm not entirely sure this is my fault and if dispatch-conf showed this to me: i use pageup/down for history navigation in the bash, after updating my system suddenly pageup jumps to the first entry in the history. after some reading i found out the responsible configfile is /etc/inputrc the updated system contains "\e[5~": beginning-of-history "\e[6~": end-of-history the other systems contain #"\e[5~": beginning-of-history #"\e[6~": end-of-history "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward the fix is obvious: copy the old entries to the current inputrc i dont know how to reproduce this, i did a 200+package update and 70+ config update. maybe the defaults changed?
emerge --info please.
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inputrc is a configuration file ... what baselayout installs is merely the default. so if you accepted the changes, then that means you were ok with them. that said, i dont really care what the default bindings are, so if people prefer history-search-{backward,forward} over {beginning,end}-of-history, it doesnt really matter to me
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26036 seems that someone already had that problem changelog does not state why this was changed sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.11 contains the 'invalid' inputrc imo this is a very important keybinding for a console oriented distro - i hate to use eg ubuntu xterm for that reason too anyway, who provides /etc/inputrc? -> lsb? maybe its worth to lobby there
no one provides inputrc. it is a file for readline to parse. there is no standard for default settings, just whatever the distribution feels like providing. the only people to convince to get it adjusted in Gentoo is the maintainers of baselayout. and i dont care one way or the other. i was just grabbing comments and such from other distributions (Debian/Fedora), i wasnt actively changing the behavior.
ive added back the previous bindings for 1.12.11.1
