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What Popular Programs Use GNU Readline?

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I was reading about key-bindings in Bash. They seem to be based on Emacs but offer the ability to switch to vi based ones. You can do set -o vi in your .bashrc to effect Bash, but I saw there was also an option to edit a file called .inputrc by adding the following line: set editing-mode vi By editing .inputrc instead of .bashrc all programs which use the GNU Readline Library will switch to vi keybindings. I probably won't switch the bindings as I'm use to the Emacs ones now and I like using defaults, but this fact has gotten me curious about GNU Readline and .inputrc. What popular utilities and programs make use of this library?
Asked by Philip Kirkbride (10746 rep)
Nov 22, 2019, 03:32 AM
Last activity: Feb 28, 2025, 08:35 AM