[ILUG] more handy tips...

[Hary Walsh]

>>>>> "John" == John P Looney <valen at tuatha.org> writes:

    John> On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 02:00:18PM +0100, Hary Walsh
    John> mentioned:

    John> to customise it. Don't suppose you'd post a ~/.readlinerc or
    John> something to see what sort of nice stuff you can do with it,
    John> hmm ?

Firstly, as I said previously, I tend to shy away from customising
things too much.  However, I do have one or two things in my .inputrc

For example I set 'completion-query-items' in my .inputrc instead of
my .bashrc to provide consistency.  I also set editing-mode to emacs
here.

Also, I believe someone set a variable in a sample .cshrc to show all
completions on the first TAB.  I would have set this in my .inputrc,
so I'd get the same behaviour on all GNU cli based apps (
show-all-if-ambigious )

So, my .inputrc
---8<---
# Why I originally changed to bash.  I know tcsh has an emacs mode,
# but it's not anywhere near as comprehensive as bash's 
set editing-mode emacs

# Ask me if there are more than 150
set completion-query-items 150

# edit the path
"\C-xp": "PATH=${PATH}\C-a\ef\C-f"

#edit the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
"\C-xl": "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}\C-a\ef\C-f"

# Quote the current or previous word
"\C-x\"": "\eb\"\ef\""
---8<--



    John> emacs. http://moebius.dartmouth.edu/~emk/learning-lisp/learning-lisp.html
    John> Not 100% complete yet...

Maybe I'll put together a .emacs tutorial for the ilug site or
something.  Would people be interested?  It might be an idea to use
the above as a prerequisite and go on from there talking about the
various useful packages that come with X?Emacs.

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hjw