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Re: "set glob-complete-word off" not honored in .inputrc


From: Michael Carmack
Subject: Re: "set glob-complete-word off" not honored in .inputrc
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:29:05 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:43:38PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> >
> >If you put 'set glob-complete-word off' in .inputrc, it is not obeyed
> >when you first get a shell. However, if you re-read .inputrc (C-x C-r)
> >it does get picked up.
> 
> What's to obey?  There's no such bindable readline variable.

Ok, I over-applied this bit of the man page:

       Except where noted, readline variables can take the values
       On or Off.  The variables and their default values are:


> I believe that the cause is that bash-2.05b binds the special shell
> completion keybindings without regard to whether or not there is already
> a binding for a particular key sequence.
> When you re-read your inputrc, your binding for M-g is reestablished.

Is there currently any way around this, short of commenting out that
binding in the source? 

If not, would it be possible in the future to have the .inputrc bindings
overide the defaults?

m.





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