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The

file defines various settings to be used by the

library.

The format of each line is:

is one of the

builtin commands. Refer to

for more information.

is the program name string that a program defines when it calls

to set up

which is usually

will be executed for any program which matches

may also be a

style regular expression, in which case

will be executed for any program that matches the regular expression.

is absent,

is executed for all programs.

The

library has some builtin commands, which affect the way that the line editing and history functions operate. These are based on similar named builtins present in the

shell.

The following builtin commands are available:

Without options and arguments, list all bound keys and macros, and the editor command or input string to which each one is bound. If only

is supplied, show the binding for that key or macro. If

is supplied, bind the editor

to that key or macro.

The options are as follows:

List or change key bindings in the

mode alternate (command mode) key map.

Bind all keys to the standard GNU Emacs-like bindings.

is interpreted as a symbolic arrow key name, which may be one of

List all editor commands and a short description of each.

Remove the binding of the key or macro

Define a keyboard macro rather than a key binding or command macro:

is taken as a literal string and appended to the input queue whenever

is typed. Bound keys and macros in

are themselves reinterpreted, and this continues for ten levels of interpretation.

Bind all keys to the standard

bindings.

The

manual documents all editor commands and contains more information about macros and the input queue.

and

can contain control characters of the form

e.g.

and the following backslashed escape sequences:

Bell

Backspace

Escape

Formfeed

Newline

Carriage return

Horizontal tab

Vertical tab

The ASCII character corresponding to the octal number

nullifies the special meaning of the following character, if it has any, notably

and

Exercise terminal capabilities given in

the value of that capability is printed, with

indicating that the terminal does or does not have that capability.

returns an empty string for non-existent capabilities, rather than causing an error.

causes messages to be verbose.

Enable or disable the

functionality in a program.

The

command lists all entries in the history. The

command sets the history size to

entries. The

command controls if history should keep duplicate entries. If

is non zero, only keep unique history entries. If

is zero, then keep all entries (the default).

Set the terminal capability

as defined in

No sanity checking is done.

Control which tty modes that

won’t allow the user to change.

tells

to act on the

set of tty modes respectively; defaulting to

Without other arguments,

lists the modes in the chosen set which are fixed on

or off

lists all tty modes in the chosen set regardless of the setting. With

fixes

on or off or removes control of

in the chosen set.

can also be used to set tty characters to particular values using

is empty then the character is set to

List the values of all the terminal capabilities (see

Names the default configuration file for the

library.

Last resort, if no other file is specified, user configuration file for the

library.

The

library was written by

and this manual was written by

with some sections inspired by