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diff --git a/doc/readline.3 b/doc/readline.3 index 90cd997..2c45ed2 100644 --- a/doc/readline.3 +++ b/doc/readline.3 @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ .\" Case Western Reserve University .\" chet@ins.CWRU.Edu .\" -.\" Last Change: Tue Sep 13 12:07:26 EDT 2005 +.\" Last Change: Thu Feb 9 09:49:51 EST 2006 .\" -.TH READLINE 3 "2005 Sep 13" "GNU Readline 5.1-beta1" +.TH READLINE 3 "2006 Apr 26" "GNU Readline 5.2" .\" .\" File Name macro. This used to be `.PN', for Path Name, .\" but Sun doesn't seem to like that very much. @@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ The name of this file is taken from the value of the .B INPUTRC environment variable. If that variable is unset, the default is .IR ~/.inputrc . +If that file does not exist or cannot be read, the ultimate default is +.IR /etc/inputrc . When a program which uses the readline library starts up, the init file is read, and the key bindings and variables are set. There are only a few basic constructs allowed in the @@ -168,6 +170,8 @@ command or the text of a macro and a key sequence to which it should be bound. The name may be specified in one of two ways: as a symbolic key name, possibly with \fIMeta\-\fP or \fIControl\-\fP prefixes, or as a key sequence. +The name and key sequence are separated by a colon. There can be no +whitespace between the name and the colon. .PP When using the form \fBkeyname\fP:\^\fIfunction-name\fP or \fImacro\fP, .I keyname |