Re: [RP] C-h in : prompt

[Doug Kearns]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:02:54PM +0200, Björn Lindström wrote:
> I'm trying out the 1.3 beta and I really love the new tab
> completion. However, I would like C-h to act like backspace there. Can
> anyone tell me how to do that? (I guess it would take some
> bash/readline configuration).

It's a bit of a pain because, we don't actually use readline - only the
history library. So you'll have to patch the source. This will add the
keybinding you're after:

Index: src/editor.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/ratpoison/ratpoison/src/editor.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 editor.c
--- src/editor.c        28 May 2003 22:36:31 -0000      1.3
+++ src/editor.c        20 Jul 2003 01:40:22 -0000
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
      {{XK_d,           RP_CONTROL_MASK},       editor_delete_char},
      {{XK_Delete,      0},                     editor_delete_char},
      {{XK_BackSpace,   0},                     editor_backward_delete_char},
+     {{XK_h,           RP_CONTROL_MASK},       editor_backward_delete_char},
      {{XK_BackSpace,   RP_META_MASK},          editor_backward_kill_word},
      {{XK_d,           RP_META_MASK},          editor_kill_word},
      {{XK_k,           RP_CONTROL_MASK},       editor_kill_line},

Regards,
Doug