[OpenIndiana-discuss] About readline and ~/.inputrc

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Thu May 25 15:27:41 UTC 2017


Does anyone know what readline pkgs are necessay to make bash's
~/.inputrc file work?

These are the pkgs shown by `pkg list -a' on current OS image:

 SUNWgnu-readline                    5.2-0.133            --r
 library/readline                    6.3-2017.0.0.1       i--
 web/php-54/extension/php-readline   5.4.45-2016.0.0.2    --o
 web/php-55/extension/php-readline   5.5.38-2016.0.0.1    --o
 web/php-56/extension/php-readline   5.6.27-2017.0.0.0    ---

As you see there I have only library/readline installed

`man bash' shows subsection on INPUTRC and READLINE, but never
mentions what readline library is required.

I think I would like to install whatever readline tools are needed in
order to be able to use ~/.inputrc... which I've found quite usefull
to have from my linux days.

I suspect it will be external readline pkg like readline-gnu

But do not know, because looks like our `gnu-readline', is now part of
`userland-incorporation' and I do have that installed.

What I do know is that ~/.inputrc does not work on my installation of
current hipster (using bash).




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