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commands in an <EM>inputrc</EM> file, conventionally in his home directory.
The name of this
file is taken from the value of the environment variable <CODE>INPUTRC</CODE>. If
-that variable is unset, the default is <TT>`~/.inputrc'</TT>.
+that variable is unset, the default is <TT>`~/.inputrc'</TT>. If that
+file does not exist or cannot be read, the ultimate default is
+<TT>`/etc/inputrc'</TT>.
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When a program which uses the Readline library starts up, the
<DT><U>Function:</U> int <B>rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout</B> <I>(int u)</I>
<DD>While waiting for keyboard input in <CODE>rl_read_key()</CODE>, Readline will
wait for <VAR>u</VAR> microseconds for input before calling any function
-assigned to <CODE>rl_event_hook</CODE>. The default waiting period is
-one-tenth of a second. Returns the old timeout value.
+assigned to <CODE>rl_event_hook</CODE>. <VAR>u</VAR> must be greater than or equal
+to zero (a zero-length timeout is equivalent to a poll).
+The default waiting period is one-tenth of a second.
+Returns the old timeout value.
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It returns an integer that should be non-zero if the function modifies
its directory argument.
It could be used to expand symbolic links or shell variables in pathnames.
+At the least, even if no other expansion is performed, this function should
+remove any quote characters from the directory name, because its result will
+be passed directly to <CODE>opendir()</CODE>.
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