Re: Where is "the Cursor one word left/right keybinding?"

[Jay Christnach <jaychris pt lu>]

Thanks for trying to help, Charles.

The Ctrl&-> things are exactly what I miss. At least I now know that 
those keys do work for you, but not for me. So, there must be something 
wrong with some configuration. Do you know where I need to look to fix this?

Best regards,
Jay Christnach




Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure if this is what you are talking about.  But try using:
> [CTRL]+[->] and [CTRL]+[<-] -- control-right-arrow and
> control-left-arrow.  They make you move one word at a time.  And
> if you want to highlight too, then hold down the [SHIFT] keys, also.
>
> See ya
>
>      Charles Iliya Krempeaux
>      tnt @ linux.ca
>      ckrempea @ alumni.sfu.ca
>
>
> On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 09:58, Jay Christnach wrote:
>
> > I miss that one especially. I find particularly annoying to have to wait 
> > until the cursor reaches the beginning or end of a word in the middle of 
> > a line by holding down the key.
> > I don't know if this is the right place to ask, it's probably 
> > application dependent and not a Gnome issue. (I know that such a 
> > shortcut exists in emacs, but can't recall it). But I read the 
> > discussion about a keybinding standard for Gnome in teh GUI list and 
> > think that there really should exist a standard.I'm more used to Windows 
> > but decided to do most things in Linux from now on. In Windows the 
> > C-Cursor key moves by words in every editable textbox in every programm.
> > It would be also a good idea to have a table of keybindings in the Gnome 
> > Help for not so Unix-aware people.
> > Anyway, I want to know this one now. Thanks for help.
> >
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