Re: What I'm missing when using M-x shell

[Francis Moreau]

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Livin Stephen <livin.stephen@gmail.com> wrote:
>  ... I know some keyboard shortcuts (like M-t, C-k, C-r) that work in,
> say bash, but I always thought of them as emacs-ish shortcuts
> conveniently available there. Then seeing the man-page for 'bash' i
> came across 'Readline' which seems to actually provide these shortcuts
> and functions.
>
>  So my question is:
> How do you invoke commands like (yank-last-arg) in any shell [ not
> just emacs' term ] if they don't have a keybinding ?
> For example,
> invoke 'kill-word' without using the shortcut key 'M-d'. Is this
> possible ?

I don't think you can but I'm really not sure.

The only thing I know for sure is that you can use ~/.inputrc to map some
binding with realdine functions. But this is well described in bash man page.


-- 
Francis