Lowercase 'e' no longer works in Terminals

Phw, that’s a rlif, I thought thr might b a lowrcas ‘’ virus on th loos. Who knows, it might start attacking th ‘f’ ky nxt.

lol!

A good laugh on a monday morning :). This one will get me through the week. Cheers Ken.

BTW, I had this one on the wall years ago:

My rypxwrirxr has problxms :wink:

Ar you sp aking to m ?


palladium

Files like those (e.g. .bashrc, .profile, etc.) generally come packaged with commented lines so the user can adjust them to their individuals needs/desires. In this case, I messed up by seeing the “# end” line like an ‘exit’ command, so I uncommented it, and that was the big boo-boo.

but, just to try to emphasis a point, for future reference:

linux is generally a very stable operating system…when set up
correctly it should stay stable, dependable and predictable (there
are, for example not a great chance it will get strange/slow/etc from
a virus invasion or a packed with crud registry)…

which mean, if suddenly it starts doing strange things then your
FIRST suspects should be the just preceding:

-update
-added program
-hardware flakiness
-user/administrator missteps/typos/mistakes…

so, if you have not added any programs, updates and don’t have reason
to believe hardware errors and suddenly you can’t (for example) type
an ‘e’ then just sit down and think: what did i do in any
config/hidden file since the last time this strange thing didn’t happen?

and, start undoing them…

as a matter of practice what i do here is before i change any config
file i make a copy of what was working, into the same directory…so,
if i typo a crazy it is real easy to find and restore what it used to be…

like, in your case, if i looked in my /home on Saturday when the crazy
began i would have found

~/.inputrc
~/.inputrcBAK2010.02.19

by using the yyyy.mm.dd appendage all changes over time will fall in
order…

if i make several changes in one day i just add a 24 hour time stamp

~/.inputrc
~/.inputrcBAK2010.02.19
~/.inputrcBAK2010.02.19.0924
~/.inputrcBAK2010.02.19.1653

oh, and of course that ‘trick’ to add a new user and see if all is
well, is a wonderfully predictable way to zero in on a problem
somewhere within your own /home…


palladium

Thanks. That is a pretty good idea. I did come to the realization that I am going to have to keep track of what changes I make. I was looking at the dates on filenames to see if that could give me any clue… I was just off by one day. Generally, a backup of an edited file on my computer gets the tilde (~) added on the end of it (e.g. ~/.inputrc), of course, that is moot if you save the file more than once during editing, or do not have nano’s ‘backup’ on.

Oh well, it was yet another lesson learned in the world of computing for me :wink:

Star_Gazer