bindctl command history

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 17 May 2012, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> > instead of doing command history. There is another tedious problem 
> > with correcting typos: pressing the Backspace key generates "^H" 
> > instead of deleting the character to the left. The right and left 
> > arrows generate "^[[C" and "^[[D", and the Delete key generates 
> > "^[[3~". The only way I can delete the character to the left is 
> > <Ctrl>-<Backspace>. These keys all work as expected with the bash 
> > shell outside of bindctl.

Seems like your backspace and Ctrl-Backspace are reversed. Locally on my 
Linux system at the console (no X) or in X, the backspace is ^? and 
Ctrl-Backspace is ^H. And "stty -a" shows me "erase = ^?"
Also in X, I have:

$ xmodmap -pke | egrep -i "code 22 =|backspace"
keycode  22 = BackSpace NoSymbol BackSpace

If your system is configured correctly, then maybe we need to research 
about this.

(I wonder why I can't find the sys.stdin.readline documented at 
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/sys.html?highlight=sys.stdin#sys.stdin )