Re: [Bug-readline] add control-arrow bindings

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/8/17 3:52 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 03/08/2017 03:35 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 3/8/17 12:50 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
>>> I have the following in my ~/.inputrc, but I think they should be
>>> bound by default, just like the arrow keys:
>>>
>>> "\e[1;5C": forward-word
>>> "\e[1;5D": backward-word
>>> "\e[3;5~": kill-word
>>>
>>> These bind control-left-arrow, control-right-arrow, and control-delete
>>> to their "standard" keybindings.
>>
>> How standard are these escape sequences? I use Mac OS X, so obviously
>> they don't work at all for me.
> 
> They're very standard:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts#Text_editing

OK.

> They might even work on Mac OS, though the modifier key needed might be
> different.

No, I tried all of these long ago.  There is basic consistency across
terminal emulators when using opt-arrow (control-arrow is a system key
binding that switches virtual desktops), and none of Terminal/iTerm/aterm
/xterm output any of those key sequences.

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