Debian Bug report logs - #198634
Can't bind keys in insert mode?

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Can't bind keys in insert mode?

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:44:03 +0200

Package: libreadline4
Version: 4.3-5
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

 just for fun I switched the editing mode to vi style.  One thing I
 noticed rather quickly is that C-l in _insert_ mode produces a ^L
 character, instead of issuing the clear-screen command.  Looking at the
 documentation I can't figure out if this is a feature or a bug.  From
 the docs it reads:

       While the Readline library does not have a full set of `vi'
       editing functions, it does contain enough to allow simple editing
       of the line.  The Readline `vi' mode behaves as specified in the
       POSIX 1003.2 standard.

       In order to switch interactively between `emacs' and `vi' editing
       modes, use the command `M-C-j' (bound to emacs-editing-mode when
       in `vi' mode and to vi-editing-mode in `emacs' mode).  The
       Readline default is `emacs' mode.

       When you enter a line in `vi' mode, you are already placed in
       `insertion' mode, as if you had typed an `i'.  Pressing <ESC>
       switches you into `command' mode, where you can edit the text of
       the line with the standard `vi' movement keys, move to previous
       history lines with `k' and subsequent lines with `j', and so
       forth.

 and that's pretty much it.  I suspect the last sentence in the first
 paragraph might have something to do with this, but that's just a
 guess.  If this is really a feature, could it be documented a _bit_
 more verbosely somewhere please?

 Oh, btw, I can't get C-M-j to work.  Perhaps I need to figure out which
 key is Meta.  I thought it was "Alt" (which xkeycaps confirms), but no
 cigar...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux techno 2.4.21-ck1 #1 Mon Jun 16 09:59:43 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=3DC, LC_CTYPE=3Den_US

Versions of packages libreadline4 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.1-17       GNU C Library: Shared librarie=
s an
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030510-2 Shared libraries for terminal =
hand

-- no debconf information

Message #14 received at 198634@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>

To: 198634@bugs.debian.org, mmagallo@debian.org

Cc: chet@cwru.edu

Subject: Re: readline vi mode -- forwarded message from Marcelo E. Magallon

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:28:58 -0400

> Package: libreadline4
> Version: 4.3-5
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  just for fun I switched the editing mode to vi style.  One thing I
>  noticed rather quickly is that C-l in _insert_ mode produces a ^L
>  character, instead of issuing the clear-screen command.  Looking at the
>  documentation I can't figure out if this is a feature or a bug.

The Bash/readline vi editing mode follows the POSIX.2 standard for the
vi editing mode included in the description of `sh'.
(http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/sh.html)

That description requires ^L to be mapped to self-insert in vi insert mode.

>        When you enter a line in `vi' mode, you are already placed in
>        `insertion' mode, as if you had typed an `i'.  Pressing <ESC>
>        switches you into `command' mode, where you can edit the text of
>        the line with the standard `vi' movement keys, move to previous
>        history lines with `k' and subsequent lines with `j', and so
>        forth.
> 
>  and that's pretty much it.  I suspect the last sentence in the first
>  paragraph might have something to do with this, but that's just a
>  guess.  If this is really a feature, could it be documented a _bit_
>  more verbosely somewhere please?

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/sh.html#tag_04_128_13_03

>  Oh, btw, I can't get C-M-j to work.  Perhaps I need to figure out which
>  key is Meta.  I thought it was "Alt" (which xkeycaps confirms), but no
>  cigar...

It doesn't work in bash.  Bash disables it because `set -o emacs' and
`set -o vi' exist.  There is text in the readline manual that is conditionally
included depending on whether or not the text is part of the bash manual
or standalone.  The standalone version includes the M-C-j stuff; the bash
version includes `set -o {emacs,vi}'.

Chet

-- 
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Message #21 received at 198634@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marcelo <marcelo.magallon@gmail.com>

To: 198634@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Update

Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:44:04 -0600

Just for the record, this configuration in ~/.inputrc does the trick:

set keymap vi-insert
Control-L: clear-screen

set editing-mode vi

AFAICS it's still not documented.

Marcelo

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Cc: readline5@packages.debian.org

Subject: Bug#980504: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:18:23 +0000

Version: 5.2+dfsg-3+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package readline5 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/980504

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