From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25271 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2002 17:06:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25264 invoked from network); 28 Jul 2002 17:06:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta02-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.42) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Jul 2002 17:06:18 -0000 Received: from loki ([213.104.71.75]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020728170616.KGJW290.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@loki> for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 18:06:16 +0100 From: "John Morrison" To: Subject: RE: bash and the delete key Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-reply-to: <20020728165001.66579.qmail@web20005.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg02239.txt.bz2 > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin > > > The next generation of the profile package will, probably, > > have a /etc/skel directory. When /etc/profile creates a > > home directory it will also copy the contents of /etc/skel > > to that directory. > > > I suggest that you take up with the bash maintainer the > > (possible) creation of a /etc/skel/.inputrc file with > > appropriate (default) contents :) > > > It might even be possible to add two 'defaults' - a > > /etc/skel/.inputrc (linux like defaults) > > /etc/skel/alt/.inputrc.mimic.windows (or something like) > > I think this is a great idea for readline (.inputrc), bash > (.bash_profile), tcsh (.cshrc), etc. Actually I don't see > why they couldn't all be in the 'profile' package, though maybe > that's not exactly correct. I'd rather [shell|X|...] specific skeleton files be kept with the appropriate package, otherwise I'd have _far_ too much to maintain. I don't mind adding something to the profile script which, given a xxx.default when there is no xxx cp /etc/skel/xxx.default /etc/skel/xxx before copying to the users home (if appropriate). > Also perhaps these files could be > not just useful but also instructional, with comments pointing > out options, examples, and documentation. For example: > > # Aliases for Windows equivalents; see 'info fileutils' for differences I'm making an effort to try and comment all my files (starting with 1.1-1), if I miss something or get it wrong, please comment! :) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/