From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <86oc72pz1x.fsf@cmarib.ramside> References: <20110126160259.GA5381@snow.home> <86oc72pz1x.fsf@cmarib.ramside> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:21:10 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p 9term problem From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2228586-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 set +o emacs >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 set +o vi >> >> to turn off those editing modes, bash will just read from the >> tty with echo turned on > > Is that to say that readline turns echo off when typing? yes. > If, for example, the emacs keybindings are set, there may be another way > to insert that initial parenthesis: ^A ( ^E > > Wouldn't that work, too? yes but the original poster asked to be able to use 9term's mouse editing. if you want ^A ( ^E then my advice does not apply. russ