Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 9, 2010 9:33 AM EDT
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Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc. Most of the time the default settings will work perfectly well, but there are a few you may wish to try out that will make slight changes to the way that tab-completion behaves. Be sure to hit Ctrl-X, Ctrl-R after editing the file to re-read it and use the changes you've made.

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