mintty and CTRL + ->

[Dave Korn]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> 2009/4/27 Vincent R.
>> on unix terminals when I press CTRL + RIGHT_KEY or CTRL+LEFT_KEY, cursor
>> move from one word to another
>> which is very handy.
>> It doesn't work on mintty and I am sad about it ... ;-)
> 
> You'll need to configure that behaviour in ~/.inputrc, the config file
> for the readline library. From the TIPS section of the mintty manual
> page:

>        Anyone used to Windows key combinations for editing text might find the
>        following bindings useful:
> 
>               # Ctrl+Left/Right to move by whole words
>               "\e[1;5D": backward-word
>               "\e[1;5C": forward-word

  (Not mitty, but related): That didn't work for me in a cmd.exe shell, but
this does:

"\e[D": backward-word
"\e[C": forward-word

  I don't know why.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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