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esauve

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 16

ctrl-left arrow & ctrl-right arrow not assigned in bash

In most other other distros I worked with, the CTRL-Left arrow and CTRL-right arrow will move one word to the left (or right) in a shell or a term (ex. gnome-terminal) but doesn't do anything under Arch. How/where can I assign these key combinations under Arch? TIA

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: ctrl-left arrow & ctrl-right arrow not assigned in bash

My left alt button has this behavior here.

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: ctrl-left arrow & ctrl-right arrow not assigned in bash

im not exactly sure esuave, but you may wanna look at the ~/.inputrc file. may be /etc/inputrc if you dont have one in your home directory.

edit:

"\eOd": backward-word
"\eOc": forward-word

in ~/.inputrc may do the trick.

Last edited by rson451 (2007-07-13 21:22:52)

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Re: ctrl-left arrow & ctrl-right arrow not assigned in bash

Cool, that's something I've always missed. Thanks! :-D

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esauve

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 16

Re: ctrl-left arrow & ctrl-right arrow not assigned in bash

Thanks for the reply rson451. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I tried adding it to both /etc/inputrc and ~/.inputrc. I tried finding where other distros store these entries with no success...

bboozzoo

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 125

Re: ctrl-left arrow & ctrl-right arrow not assigned in bash

if bash is working in emacs mode then meta+b, moves backward, meta+f moves forward word-wise

esauve

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 16

Re: ctrl-left arrow & ctrl-right arrow not assigned in bash

Ok I finally figured it out. To say that it was a learning experience would be an understatement.

I added the following 4 lines in /etc/inputrc

"\e[1;5C": forward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
"\e[1;5D": backward-word
"\e\e[D": backward-word

I discovered that these new entries do not apply to a standard console (getty?) and only works within an ssh session or inside a term of some sort (i.e. gnome-terminal). Hopefully this will be useful to someone else.