Re: control left/right in terminal

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

Hello!

> control left/right (bkwd-word/fwd-word) works for
> console, and works nicely... but..
>
> would be nice if it worked for terminal too... ctrl left/right
> outputs a 'd' and 'c' respectively ... is this possible
> to fix?

Yes.  It works in konsole already.

> i put this line in my inputrc:
>
> "\eOd": backward-word
> "\eOc": forward-word
>
> and ctrl left/right works for normal bash.... unfortunately
> it doesn't work for mc (my guess is because mc
> doesn't use readline)

No, it doesn't.  Also, mc sets application mode, in which some
escape sequences change in some terminals.

> also would be nice if ctrl-up/ctrl-down scrolled the buffer down and up,
> respectively.... leaving the cursor in the same position on the screen
> though...

That's how it works if those sequences are recognized.

The best solution would be to make every terminal for X11 (at least those
pretending to be xterm-compatible) support xterm key sequences as
documented here: http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.3.0/doc/ctlseqs.TXT

On the other hand, mc should be able to read sequences with modifiers from
configuration files.  This is in the TODO list for version 4.6.1.

In the meantime you can use "Learn Keys" to teach mc those keys.  I.e.
select "Up" but press Ctrl-Up.  mc should do the right thing as long as it
has access to the X server.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin