I'm on a roll today, here's another question:
How come when I put these into .inputrc
, they both do the same thing?
TAB: menu-complete
Shift-TAB: menu-complete-reverse
i.e. they both do whatever the last one says.
bashreadline
I'm on a roll today, here's another question:
How come when I put these into .inputrc
, they both do the same thing?
TAB: menu-complete
Shift-TAB: menu-complete-reverse
i.e. they both do whatever the last one says.
Best Answer
Readline doesn't know anything about a modifier called
Shift
, and quietly ignores unknown modifier names. Trywibble-TAB
.To bind an action to Shift+Tab, you need to find out what escape sequence your terminal sends. In bash, run
cat
and type Ctrl+V then Shift+Tab. This will insert the escape sequence literally. It's likely that the first character will be an escape character, shown as^[
; different terminals have different escape sequences, but common possibilities are␛[Z
(i.e. escape, left bracket, capital Z) and␛␉
(i.e. escape, tab). Bind the key appropriately in~/.inputrc
(where\e
means an escape character).