[Konsole-devel] How can I get Ctl-b delivered to BASH?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Bruce Korb wrote:
> For more than *TWENTY* *YEARS*, Ctl-B has been used in
> ksh and bash emacs mode to mean "non-descructive back one space".
> With that much history, it was an extraordinarily bad idea to
> rebind it to "save bookmark".

Strangely, my 'bookmark' action (which I have never re-bound) is bound 
to ctrl-/SHIFT/-B.

To answer the question in the subject: apparently you press ctrl-B. I 
tried it, and... it moves the caret back one space without erasing. 
(That said, I usually use the left arrow for that purpose.)

> What makes an extraordinarily bad
> idea all the worse is that, to the best I can figure out, the
> only way to disable this is to meander through various pull down
> menus to unbind the key.  For *EACH* instance of konsole.

Each instance on a different machine/user pair? Maybe. Certainly not 
each instance running as the same user/machine.

> So, please, please, for God's sake, PLEASE include the 3.5 version of
> konsole in the kde4.x distributions.  Thank you.

First off, you've completely failed to mention any reason to do this. 
Second, you have the wrong target audience; KDE developers do not 
control what distributions ship. If you feel so strongly, you should 
talk to your distribution packages. However I would expect a similar 
reaction, since the problem is not with Konsole 2.x.

If you'd like help investigating how /your machine/ came to be 
misconfigured, we may be able to help. But please lay off the hysterical 
conclusions and wildly flung accusations and demands.

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Matthew
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