Delete key now prints ~ in Bash prompt

breakerfall

Hi

I'm not sure exactly what I've done to cause this, but I just noticed that my delete key prints the tilde symbol ~ in Aterm. It's not cause by aterm though - it's something to do with Bash. Any ideas on how it happened or how I can rectify the problem?

Thanks

blaster999 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 7:05 am Post subject:

Do you have .inputrc in your home dir? If yes, delete it and everything will be OK. Also, you can do a search (I've seen some posts about the same problem).
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breakerfall · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:04 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply, however, I don't have .inputrc in my home directory. I also did a search of this forums, linuxquestions and google and didn't see anything useful (although I may have been a little impatient)

Any other ideas?

blaster999 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:15 am Post subject:

Post your /etc/inputrc file.
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Illissius · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 395 Location: Hungary

I had this problem, and I set my .inputrc to <see below>, and it works fine now. (If the file doesn't exist, just create it.)

blaster999 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

Double-check if the line

breakerfall · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:14 pm Post subject:

blaster999 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

Strange. The problem usually arises when ~/.inputrc overrides /etc/inputrc.
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steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

i have the same problem. don't know why. any help would be nice.

cheers

SteveB

breakerfall · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:26 am Post subject:

I no longer have this problem - most likely due to the upgrade of Bash to 3.0.0

See if that helps.

chaseguard · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 140

I emerged Bash 3.0r-4 and it does not fix the delete tilde. Besides Metacity, this is another annoyance. Can't figure how any PS1 config culd even do this.

Gentree · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:

Headrush · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem.

I have an /etc/inputrc with the "\e[3~": delete-char line but no ~/.inputrc file.

This started happening after the upgrade to xorg 6.8 so maybe something with that.

Roptaty · Apprentice Joined: 12 May 2002 Posts: 184 Location: Norway

Does the delete key work properly in X/Gtk/QT programs?
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Gentree · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject:

yes , in this post from Opera

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Gentree · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject:

Yeah, this is getting on my tits.

the whole num. pad has gone tits-up in all terminals. Ok with numlock but arrow keys do silly stuff.

Any ideas?

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breakerfall · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:52 pm Post subject:

I really wish I could remember how I resolved the issue... I now I've since upgraded to Bash version 3, but I don't think that's what fixed it.

Gentree · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject:

No, like I say I dont think the issue is with bash. zsh is doing just the same in xterm.

Interestingly aterm is just ignoring the numpad whereas xterm bleeps and prints something useless.

:?:

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brettlpb · Apprentice Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 197

So, nobody has any resolutions? Same problem here, Bash 3.0

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

i did a diff of /etc/inputrc from one system where the del key works and from one where the del key prints a ~ and both inputrc files are the same. so it can't be the inputrc file.

cheers

SteveB

Inte · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject:

I've recognized this problem some weeks ago and still haven't found a solution.

Console:

No umlauts "ä", "ö", or "ü"
No Euro symbol ""
Pressing Del, Ins, PgUp & PgDn generates "~" Tilde
Appearance:
Code:

user@host dir $
Executing 'bash' enables umlauts, but euro and function-keys still broken
Appearance after executing 'bash':
Code:

bash-2.05b$

Xterm

Umlauts are OK because of XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman in ~/.Xdefaults
Otherwise same behaviour as console except it's not necessary to execute 'bash'

/etc/rc.conf

blaster999 · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject:

What about /etc/profile? And /etc/bashrc or /etc/bash/bashrc?
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Inte · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject:

What about /etc/profile? :arrow:

Isn't modified.

And /etc/bashrc or /etc/bash/bashrc? :arrow:

Not existent

~/.inputrc :arrow:

Not existent
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borchi · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 44

i know i might be way off on this, but have you recently emerged newer version of baselayout package? i had a similar problem when i started to mess with splashutils (which needed newer version of baselayout (which needed sysvinit package)).

luqas · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:24 pm Post subject: