[PLUG] Why did ~ break in bash vi mode?

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Thu Feb 19 14:24:01 UTC 2004


On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Zot O'Connor wrote:

> In RH9 and up, bash seems to have broken ~ while in vi mode...
>
> It used to change the case of the letter, now, it ummms, foobars the
> line [...]

Zot,

Are you running this instance of your shell locally, or over an ssh
connection?

The reason I ask is that OpenSSH's ssh client uses ~ as the escape
character. See the 'Escape Characters' section of ssh(1) for the gory
details.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>




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