Shell keybindings

[logvoid]

On GNU/Linux one could add a keybinding to a shell for bash via `bind -x '"\C-i":ls'`

The `-x` flag is not valid on FreeBSD bash seemingly. Is there any way to mimick the `-x` behavior?

 

[jwillia3]

I presume -x means remove all current bindings for the key sequence.
You probably want to use -r on FreeBSD.
You can find the documentation in editrc(5) as directed from sh(1). The manpages for shell builtins are don't actually document their syntax (e.g. bind(1)).

 

[logvoid]

The `-x` is merely for key-seq:shell-command for bash bind

Thanks for pointing me to editrc(5).

 

[logvoid]

Ah Ok I realized my issue

I have been calling bash with a command when launching a new shell. When I leave the process that spawned I'm back in ash not bash. I needed to invoke bash whereupon the bind exposed is the bash bind which takes `-x` and works appropriately

 

[tembun]

It should work in FreeBSD shells/bash as well as in any Linux distro, because keybindings syntax and functionality are determined by the library that is used to deal with user input. shells/bash uses readline(3), no matter the OS. But for instance FreeBSD sh(1) uses editline(7), and its interface is not the same.