Changeset 98a9662e for chapter07

Timestamp:

11/07/2016 09:02:11 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

ac88e44

Parents:

4d97563

Message:

Clarified the function of /etc/inputrc

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11141 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter07/inputrc.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter07/inputrc.xml

@@ -15 +15 @@
   </indexterm>
 
-  <para>The <filename>inputrc</filename> file handles keyboard mapping for
-  specific situations. This file is the startup file used by Readline &mdash; the
-  input-related library &mdash; used by Bash and most other shells.</para>
+  <para>The <filename>inputrc</filename> file is the configuration file for
+  Readline library, which provides editing capabilities while the user is
+  entering  a line from the terminal. It works by tranlating keyboard inputs
+  into specific actions.  Readline is used by Bash and most other shells as
+  well as many other applications.</para>
 
-  <para>Most people do not need user-specific keyboard mappings so the command
+  <para>Most people do not need user-specific functionality so the command
   below creates a global <filename>/etc/inputrc</filename> used by everyone who
   logs in. If you later decide you need to override the defaults on a per-user