Changing completion key

Dave Richards mr.random at gmx.net
Mon Oct 21 16:06:03 EDT 2002


I recently discovered that idle and the python shell support name
completion with the combination Alt+/. As I use a German keyboard, that
means I have to press Alt+Shift+7 (/ is Shift+7), which is a little
unwieldy for my tastes. Is it possible to change this combo? I had a look
at the keydefs file in idle, but it's not in their. As far as I can see,
it's in readline.so.

Is there any way to rebind this combination to something more convenient
for my keyboard - I kind of need the German keyboard, otherwise I have
to type Alt+252 or some other 3-digit number every second word to get äöü
and ß.

Dave



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