Bug 31115

Summary:	inputrc changed bash PgUp functionality for the worse
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Douglas Russell (RETIRED) <puggy>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Douglas Russell (RETIRED) <puggy>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	morfic
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Douglas Russell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-14 05:19:07 UTC

PgUp in bash used to search backwards through the history based upon the command you've started entering. So its history based auto-complete basically. It (/etc/inputrc) was replaced with some useless functionality along with its search forward counterpart PgDown.

Used to be (Good):
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward
Is now (Bad, and pretty much completely useless):
"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history

This wasn't there before baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1 and must have appeared in one of the ebuilds between then and baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1. Probably 1.8.6.10-r1 itself as that and 1.8.6.8-r1 are the only ones in portage other than an older one before the affected area.

Puggy

Comment 1 Douglas Russell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-14 05:31:54 UTC

Seeing as we should probably stay in line with what bash are doing and not
fiddle about with that I'm closing this WONTFIX. You can always configure
it easily yourself by switching back to the old lines in /etc/inputrc.

Puggy

Comment 2 Douglas Russell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-14 05:33:21 UTC

ok. Its fixed but I mean't to choose WONTFIX.

Puggy

Comment 3 Clint Silvester 2004-02-10 18:18:16 UTC

Woohoo!  Better to stay in line with bash as it's "pretty much completely useless".  Sorry, this bugs me.  Used to be nice.  Now it suks.  I wonder who would complain if it wasn't in line with bash.  This is probably the most useful thing I've seen in a console.  This and screen.  Granted I've changed it on my machine, but none of my friends know about it and it suks when I go to their machines and have to educate them.  They all say, "Why isn't that the default?"  They wouldn't even know about it otherwise.  Is there some kind of voting system for bugs/suggestions like this?

My 2 cents.

Clint Silvester

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-01 18:37:23 UTC

this was actually Bug 26036