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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal
From:       <tomas () tuxteam ! de>
Date:       2023-12-24 7:44:57
Message-ID: ZYfheT9MLTq57JYw () tuxteam ! de
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On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 09:06:47PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 09:01:09AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 24/12/2023 07:32, Mike McClain wrote:
> > > when I
> > > type a single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal nothing shows.
> > 
> > May it happen that you have dead keys in your keyboard configuration to type
> > characters with accents? I have never used this feature, so my guess may be
> > wrong. What happens if you type single quote twice "''"? What happens if it
> > is followed by a letter "'a"?
> > 
> >     cat /etc/default/keyboard
> > 
> > What is reported by "xev" in response to the "'" key?
> 
> If it were a "dead keys" feature in the keyboard driver, I would expect
> that to affect his text editor as well as his shell.  But he claimed
> that this behavior occurs only in the shell.  That makes me think it's
> a readline key binding that has been mangled.

My thought also. But ruling that out is easy, so... Mike: what happens
if you type the single quote twice in your terminal? What happens if
you type single quote, then space?

Cheers
-- 
t

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