>> If I'm in Bash on my Ubuntu system I can use Ctrl+Left Arrow or Right >> Arrow to navigate one word at a time to the left and right. When I use >> Cygwin it doesn't react to the Ctrl, responding as if I only had >> pressed the Left or Right Arrow. Is there a way to fix this? > > The standard Bash shortcuts for moving by a word that are Alt+f and > Alt+b, so "fix" is a bit strong here. But anyway, stick these two > lines into ~/.inputrc, restart bash, and you should be set: > > "\e[1;5D": backward-word > "\e[1;5C": forward-word > > And here's one way to put Ctrl+Up/Down to use: > > "\e[1;5A": history-search-backward > "\e[1;5B": history-search-forward
I didn't know that ctrl+left and ctrl+right wasn't standard shortcuts in Bash. It's "always" (in my limited experience) been available so I guess I just assumed. With this new information I agree that fix is a bit strong, altough it did fix my problem. Thank you! :-) > > Shift combinations have a 2 instead of the 5, in case you want to map > those to something. See this link for details on bash/readline key > bindings: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Command-Line-Editing Interesting. I'll check it out. > >> The next step is when I log in from an Ubuntu 9.10 system to Cygwin 6 >> using SSH. > > Cygwin 6? Anyway, the above should work in this case as well, as long > as you're using an xterm-compatible terminal on Ubuntu, which you are. I got it from: ke...@kentl ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.0 kentl 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin And thought it would be a good indicator of what I was using. I realise now that I should have written Cygwin 1.7.x. > >> $ echo $TERM >> xterm > > Andy Thank you for your nice and informative reply! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
