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Thank you! Good to know, but I don't think I'll do that. Breaking keybindings everywhere is a bit too much just to make bash do my bidding... I take it then that distinguishing based on timing is something that readline doesn't do? Though other console programs like vim must do something like that, since Esc and Arrows are functional at the same time.
– A. Donda
Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 13:17
@A.Donda: That's correct: Vim distinguishes based on timing, which occasionally has annoying consequences when ssh'ing into a vim session over a slow link. (It also means that ESC is slightly unresponsive, but vimites learn to live with that.)
– rici
Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 13:38

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