Re: Alt-Arrow in terminal

Hello,

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Slack users,
>
> I am sorry to go back to this; I actually asked this question at one
> point but could not seem to find it.
>
> What I want to ask about is navigating the terminal line with
> Ctrl-<leftarrow> and -<rightarrow>.

Which terminal are you using? Here is the fix for me which I am using for xterm.

Explanation
=========

I seldom use it (I do use Control-A and Control-E much more),
but Ctrl-Left and Ctrl+Right works for me by default on rxvt, while it
does not work on xterm.
I use fluxbox only, no display manager.

My workaround for this, is that I force xterm to generate the same
sequence as rxvt in response to control-arrows.

These sequences are successively picked up by bash'es readline code,
by reading in /etc/inputrc:

# Set various nice escape sequences:
"\eOd": backward-word
"\eOc": forward-word

Solution (as in, works for me)
=====================

append to the file /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm the following lines
(note: leave an additional empty line at the end)

XTerm*StringConversionWarnings: on

XTerm.VT100.translations: #override \
Ctrl<Key>Left: string(0x1b) string("Od") \n\
Ctrl<Key>Right: string(0x1b) string("Oc") \n\



Ciao,

Claudio

> I have found a suggestion to put:
> "\eOd": backward-word
> "\eOc": forward-word
> in .inputrc. Unfortunately, that did not actually DO anything.
>
> Can anyone suggest to me what I am missing?
> I see there is an inputrc in /etc/inputrc which suggests the same, I am
> just not actually GETTING anything... even when I copy it to
> ~/.inputrc .
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> All the best,
> Morten

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