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Understanding control characters in .inputrc

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Mar 15, 202611594 views
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Problem

My Linux account in a remote machine comes with the following pre-defined I am reading the GNU bash documentation on the topic, but I haven't been able to find a section explaining what the character sequences , , , etc. mean. I think I read somewhere that means the (which I think is in my keyboard…

Error Output

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
“\e[5~”: history-search-backward
“\e[6~”: history-search-forward
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted…

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Fix for: Understanding control characters in .inputrc

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These are ANSI control-code escape sequences that are transmitted when various non alphanumeric keys are pressed on a "terminal" keyboard. \e means the ASCII "ESCAPE" character (octal 033 hex 1B decimal 27). Which is part of a command sequence intro…

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