various improvements

[distro-setup] / .inputrc

# case insensitive completion
set completion-ignore-case on
# - to _ insensitive completion
set completion-map-case on

# todo: explain this :)
set menu-complete-display-prefix on

# for readline-complete.el
set bell-style none
set completion-display-width 0

# preserve cusror location in history items.
# unfortunately, this does not work when using vi-mode and j or k
# I would like to make a patch to fix this.
set history-preserve-point on


# show all completions all the time
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
# this does a partial complete if it can before showing completions
set show-all-if-unmodified on


# nice in bash, but messes up completion in emacs shell
#set visible-stats on
set visible-stats off

# turn off pager for completion
set page-completions off

# to answer this question in bash-completion README:
# Q. When completing on a symlink to a directory, bash does not append
#   the trailing / and I have to hit  <Tab> again. I don't like this.
set mark-symlinked-directories on

# i had this set in the past to make c-u work, but it doesn't seem to be needed now.
# not sure if it affected any other keybinds.
#set bind-tty-special-chars off



# key bindings:

"\C-q": exchange-point-and-mark
"\C-w": kill-region
"\C-e": yank-last-arg
"\C-a": insert-comment
"\C-s": yank-nth-arg

"\C-f": menu-complete
"\C-b": menu-complete-backward

# arrow keys. for other terminals, see http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10806/how-to-change-previous-next-word-shortcut-in-bash
# this can be conditioned based on the term, see the term keyword in
# bash's readline manual section
#"\eOc": forward-word
#"\eOd": backward-word
"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word

Control-Space: set-mark


"\C-t": shell-expand-line

#C-RETURN: undo

# ctrl-delete
"\e[3;5~": kill-word


"\C-g": edit-and-execute-command

"\C-v": yank

"\C-\M-v": yank-pop

"\C-p": dabbrev-expand # similar menu-complete, except for commands in history
"\C-\M-q": quoted-insert

"\C-d": undo









####### commented out stuff ###########

# in bash, bind -p helped me figure out how to make some binds work
# i don't see this documented anywhere. not sure where I got it from but it doesn't work now
#"\C-p": paste-from-clipboard


# vi mode settings and observatoins
# double pound indicates it is only commented because I am not using vi mode
##set editing-mode vi

# completion from history. how cool
##Control-SPACE: dynamic-complete-history

# if this is a command in history, execute it and bring up the next command in history.
##"\C-o": operate-and-get-next

# this is just kinda cool to show off:
##"\M-{": complete-into-braces


# by default / and ? do a non-incremental search. This changes that.
# the downside is that you have to type ctrl-v then / to get the actual char.
##set keymap vi-command
##"/":  reverse-search-history
##"?":  forward-search-history
# make g go to the end of history. emacs has some meta key for this,
# but we are not using g, so why not.
##"g": end-of-history
# yank-pop from emacs mode, hacked into vim-mode.
##"o": vi-yank-pop
# vim uses m<letter> to set a mark and `<letter> to return to a mark specified
# by letter. On a single line, this doesn't make much sense. So I'm using the
# emacs way of a single mark. In vi-mode, you can do dm<letter> to delete a
# mark. Emacs has its own delete and copy region commands. I'd like to hack the
# source code to make d` delete to the mark and y` yank to the mark. I'm
# leaving it for now, we will see how this works out in actual emacs when I get
# my vi keybinds setup there.
##"`": exchange-point-and-mark
##"v": set-mark
##"m": kill-region
##"-": yank-last-arg
##"_": yank-nth-arg



# w and b are normally always tripping over punctuation as word separators, I
# think having W and B act like that is a bit more efficient default. And this
# "shell" functions see words as the shell does, which is cool.
# These are also only included as bash commands.
# this is enables in .bashrc, after testing if bash version is > 4
# "b": shell-backward-word
# "w": shell-forward-word
# here we are with the unwrapped word, back and end functions, (that should get fixed).
#"w": vi-fWord
#"W": vi-fword
#b: vi-bWord
#B: vi-bword
#"e": vi-eWord
#"E": vi-eword
#
#unfortunately thre is another bug:  binding for example W to vi-fword makes it
#show that its bound to that and also vi-fWord, and the upper case one is what
# word.now
#happens
#
# I added a hack to the readline sources to reverse the upper/lowercase check on these

# I would like to make a patch to make the command 'shell-end-word'



# for some reason, binding the '=' key doesn't work.

# for some reason, the documentation of the same commands seems to be more
# extensive in bash. There are extra commands listed in the bash documentation
# too, but so far they seem to be shell specific.

# "p": yank
#set keymap vi-insert
#
#notes:
#
#normal mode has this, which doesn't make sense. 'i' still works fine. whatever.
# vi-insertion-mode (not bound)
#
# normal mode default keybinds also have this:
# vi-fword (not bound)
# vi-fWord (not bound)
#
# vi-bword (not bound)
# vi-bWord (not bound)
#
# Looking in the readline sources, those are the real forward and back
# commands, but they are wrapped in this: and its corresponding back version.
# "W": vi-next-word
# "w": vi-next-word
# What this wrapper does is check for upper/lower case, do terminal ding if its
# at the eol, and handle negative counts prefixed to it.
#
# This command:
# "_": vi-yank-arg
# works like this emacs command:
# yank-last-arg
# except it puts you in insert mode afterwards, so you can't make successive
# calls to go to earlier last arguments.
#
# Emacs has a kill ring. yank means paste. yank-pop means go down the kill
# ring, this only has an effect after a yank, or a yank-pop that was after a
# yank. Vim also has a kill ring plugin, that has a yank-pop, and a yank-push,
# to browse forward in the kill ring. In emacs there is no forward function,
# you simply undo the yank. In bash vi-mode, undoing the yank undoes it
# entirely, not each item in the kill ring. This isn't a big deal. In both
# emacs and vi-mode, the kill ring stays in the new position regardless of the
# undo. Vi-mode does not allow you to yank-pop after the vi pastes 'p' and 'P',
# 1 problem is the cursor is in a little different position than an emacs yank.
# I think I can modify the readline sources fairly easily to make this
# possible.
# There is an interesting incompatibility between vi and emacs mode. Emacs mode
# always has the block be 1 square after the cursor. Same in vi-insert, but in
# vi-normal, its on top of the character and can't go beyond the last
# character, so if you do a yank at the last character in vi-normal, it does
# not put the cursor after the last character like a normal yank because it
# cant, and then you can't yank-pop because the cursor is in the wrong spot.
#
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