Help with special bash key bindings ("Ctrl+Left", "Ctrl+Right", etc.)

[Randall R Schulz]

Milan,

Most everything you need to know is in the READLINE section of the BASH 
manual "page" ("man bash" or "pinfo bash"). The only interesting oversight 
that I'm aware of is the "paste-from-clipboard" action which will, as the 
name suggests, past the first line of the clipboard (up to but not 
including the first newline) into the current input line.

Key bindings for the arrow keys don't carry information about the control 
key, but they are modified by the ALT key. You might want to experiment 
with the "od" command to see what sequences are produced by different keys 
(Fn, arrow keys, the insert, home... cluster).

Note, too, that different sequences result for _some_ of the keys in 
console vs. RXVT windows (given that fact, I'd avoid assuming that xterm 
matches either of them exactly, though it might--I don't know).

Good luck.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 21:25 2002-10-22, Milan Gardian wrote:
>Hi,
>
>could anybody please help me with setup of my bash (readline) .inputrc
>file - I'd like to bind the following keys to the following actions
>(usual Windows editor associations):
>
>?: kill-word      # Ctrl-Del
>?: backward-word  # Ctrl-Left (left is "\e[D")
>?: forward-word   # Ctrl-Right (left is "\e[C")
>
>Thanks for any suggestions!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Milan


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