On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:04:48AM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> Got a user here who's used to using <ESC> for filename completion. He's now
> come up against <TAB> for all the completion stuff in bash. He was thinking
> he'd like to have <ESC> do what <TAB> does. I thought initially of xmodmap
> but that could get upsetting in vi and stuff. Had a look at the man page
> for bash and got no help there. Anyway, the question is, Is there a way to
> have <TAB> functionality transferred to <ESC> without losing <ESC>
> functionality?
what does adding
ESC: complete
do when you add it to your ~/.inputrc? search for inputrc in the bash
man page for more info.
kevin
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