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Subject: Re: the lowercase letter b in bash shell
From: Dan Espen <daneNO@SPAM.mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:11:03 -0400
Message-ID: <ick6lxfie0.fsf@mk.telcordia.com> 
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"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 17 May 2005 at 20:35 GMT, rweaver@coastal.ufl.edu wrote:
>> Has anyone heard of this problem, my lowercase letter 'b' stopped
>> working in the command line at the prompt in bash shell.  THe uppercase
>> 'B' works fine and the lowercase 'b' works in browsers and in editors.
>> 
>> THe forward filename completion will include the letter 'b' but if I
>> highlight a word with a 'b' in it and middle click the mouse to paste
>> the word appears without the 'b'.
>> logging out and/or rebotting does not fix this, and I am at a loss for
>> what to attempt.  If I unsource my .bashrc file the problem still
>> exists.
>> 
>> Furthermore, if I change shells to ksh or csh the lowercase letter 'b'
>> works fine. no problems.
>> quick ifx change shells...right but I would like to continue in bash.
>> 
>> This is very strange any thoughts?
>
>     You have probably removed the binding in .bashrc or .inputrc.
>
>     In .bashrc, this would have that effect:
>
> bind b:
>
>     In .inputrc, it would be
>
> "b":

I think you can cause this symptom with xmodmap too.

Try this:

xmodmap -pk | grep '(b)'

You should see:

     56         0x0062 (b)      0x0042 (B)
 

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