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#1 2011-11-08 13:18:38

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Ctrl + arrow keys in tmux

I switched from screen to tmux a while ago and am very happy with it. However, there's a small problem I can't seem to solve: I can use ctrl+arrow keys to jump words in my normal terminal (and over SSH), but it does not work in tmux. I have tried changing the TERM variable (that's what Google search results recommend), but to no avail.

My .tmux.conf looks like this:

set-option -g prefix C-a
set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'
set -g terminal-overrides "xterm*:kLFT5=\eOD:kRIT5=\eOC:kUP5=\eOA:kDN5=\eOB:smkx@:rmkx@"

The last line is supposed to get ctrl+arrow behaviour working, but it doesn't seem to do anything. I tried tmux without both terminal-overrides lines commented out (both seperately and combined), but no dice. TERM value is xterm-256color, but setting it to term, screen, or screen-256color does not work.

How do I get this going?


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#2 2011-11-08 13:36:46

Awebb
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Registered: 2010-05-06
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Re: Ctrl + arrow keys in tmux

Tmux doesn't pass through ctrl+key combinations, because you can set the combination to a tmux action. I've been dealing with this problem, since I started using tmux too. This might be worth a bug report.

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#3 2012-05-21 02:03:26

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Registered: 2012-05-21
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Re: Ctrl + arrow keys in tmux

"tmux set-window-option -g xterm-keys on" seems to help with Ctrl-arrow keys in bash (I'm on RHEL 6).  See also http://superuser.com/a/402084/71922 and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tm … rrect_term

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